On Ettrick Forest's Mountains Dun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EFGGHHII JJKKLLMM NNOOPPQQ| On Ettrick Forest's mountains dun | A |
| 'Tis blithe to hear the sportsman's gun | A |
| And seek the heath frequenting brood | B |
| Far through the noonday solitude | B |
| By many a cairn and trenched mound | C |
| Where chiefs of yore sleep lone and sound | C |
| And springs where grey hair'd shepherds tell | D |
| That still the fairies love to dwell | D |
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| Along the silver streams of Tweed | E |
| 'Tis blithe the mimic fly to lead | F |
| When to the hook the salmon springs | G |
| And the line whistles through the rings | G |
| The boiling eddy see him try | H |
| Then dashing from the current high | H |
| Till watchful eye and cautious hand | I |
| Have led his wasted strength to land | I |
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| 'Tis blithe along the midnight tide | J |
| With stalwart arm the boat to guide | J |
| On high the dazzling blaze to rear | K |
| And heedful plunge the barbed spear | K |
| Rock wood and scaur emerging bright | L |
| Fling on the stream their ruddy light | L |
| And from the bank our band appears | M |
| Like Genii arm'd with fiery spears | M |
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| 'Tis blithe at eve to tell the tale | N |
| How we succeed and how we fail | N |
| Whether at Alwyn's lordly meal | O |
| Or lowlier board of Ashestiel | O |
| While the gay tapers cheerly shine | P |
| Bickers the fire and fhws the wine | P |
| Days free from thought and nights from care | Q |
| My blessing on the Forest fair | Q |
Walter Scott (sir)
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