On Tweed River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEFF ABBGGHHII ABBJJKKLL MBBMMNNOO PPLL| I | A |
| Merrily swim we the moon shines bright | B |
| Both current and ripple are dancing in light | B |
| We have roused the night raven I heard him croak | C |
| As we plashed along beneath the oak | C |
| That flings its broad branches so far and so wide | D |
| Their shadows are dancing in the midst of the tide | D |
| Who wakens my nestlings the raven he said | E |
| My beak shall ere morn in his blood be red | E |
| For a blue swollen corpse is a dainty meal | F |
| And I'll have my share with the pike and the eel | F |
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| II | A |
| Merrily swim we the moon shines bright | B |
| There's a golden gleam on the distant height | B |
| There's a silver shadow on the alders dank | G |
| And the drooping willows that wave on the bank | G |
| I see the Abbey both turret and tower | H |
| It is all astir for the vesper hour | H |
| The monks for the chapel are leaving each cell | I |
| But where's Father Philip should toll the bell | I |
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| III | A |
| Merrily swim we the moon shines bright | B |
| Downward we drift through shadow and light | B |
| Under yon rock the eddies sleep | J |
| Calm and silent dark and deep | J |
| The Kelpy has risen from the fathomless pool | K |
| He hath lighted his candle of death and of dool | K |
| Look Father look and you'll laugh to see | L |
| How he gapes and he glares with his eyes on thee | L |
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| IV | M |
| Good luck to your fishing whom watch ye to night | B |
| A man of mean or a man of might | B |
| Is it layman or priest that must float in your cove | M |
| Or lover who crosses to visit his love | M |
| Hark heard ye the Kelpy reply as we passed | N |
| God's blessing on the warder he lock'd the bridge fast | N |
| All that come to my cove are sunk | O |
| Priest or layman lover or monk | O |
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| Landed landed the black book hath won | P |
| Else had you seen Berwick with morning sun | P |
| Sain ye and save ye and blithe mot ye be | L |
| For seldom they land that go swimming with me | L |
Walter Scott (sir)
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