St. Swithin's Chair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH EEII JJKK LLMM KKNNOn Hallow Mass Eve ere yon boune ye to rest | A |
Ever beware that your couch be bless'd | A |
Sign it with cross and sain it with bead | B |
Sing the Ave and say the Creed | B |
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For on Hollow Mass Eve the Night Hag will ride | C |
And all her nine fold sweeping on by her side | C |
Whether the wind sing lowly or loud | D |
Sailing through moonshine or swath'd in the cloud | D |
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The Lady she sate in St Swithin's Chair | E |
The dew of the night has damped her hair | E |
Her cheek was pale but resolved and high | F |
Was the word of her lip and the glance of her eye | F |
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She mutter'd the spell of Swithin bold | G |
When his naked foot traced the midnight wold | G |
When he stopp'd the Hag as she rode the night | H |
And bade her descend and her promise plight | H |
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He that dare sit on St Swithin's Chair | E |
When the Night Hag wings the troubled air | E |
Questions three when he speaks the spell | I |
He may ask and she must tell | I |
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The Baron has been with King Robert his liege | J |
These three long years in battle and siege | J |
News are there none of his weal or his woe | K |
And fain the Lady his fate would know | K |
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She shudders and stops as the charm she speaks | L |
Is it the moody owl that shrieks | L |
Or is that sound betwixt laughter and scream | M |
The voice of the Demon who haunts the stream | M |
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The moan of the wind sunk silent and low | K |
And the roaring torrent had ceased to flow | K |
The calm was more dreadful than raging storm | N |
When the cold grey mist brought the ghastly form | N |
Walter Scott (sir)
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