The Bard's Incantation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCDD EFEGHIJJ KLMLDDNN OPOPQIBB RBRABBBB SBSBAAAA TSUSVVWX YZYZPPAA| The Forest of Glenmore is drear | A |
| It is all of black pine and the dark oak tree | A |
| And the midnight wind to the mountain deer | A |
| Is whistling the forest lullaby | B |
| The moon looks through the drifting storm | C |
| But the troubled lake reflects not her form | C |
| For the waves roll whitening to the land | D |
| And dash against the shelvy strand | D |
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| There is a voice among the trees | E |
| That mingles with the groaning oak | F |
| That mingles with the stormy breeze | E |
| And the lake waves dashing against the rock | G |
| There is a voice within the wood | H |
| The voice of the Bard in fitful mood | I |
| His song was louder than the blast | J |
| As the Bard of Glenmore through the forest past | J |
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| Wake ye from your sleep of death | K |
| Minstrels and bards of other days | L |
| For the midnight wind is on the heath | M |
| And the midnight meteors dimly blaze | L |
| The Spectre with the Bloody Hand | D |
| Is wandering through the wild woodland | D |
| The owl and the raven are mute for dread | N |
| And the time is meet to awake the dead | N |
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| Souls of the mighty wake and say | O |
| To what high strain your harps were strung | P |
| When Lochlin plough'd her billowy way | O |
| And on your shores her Norsemen flung | P |
| Her Norsemen train'd to spoil and blood | Q |
| Skill'd to prepare the Raven's food | I |
| All by your harpings doom'd to die | B |
| On bloody Largs and Loncarty | B |
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| Mute are ye all No murmurs strange | R |
| Upon the midnight breeze sail by | B |
| Nor through the pines with whistling change | R |
| Mimic the harp's wild harmony | A |
| Mute are ye now Ye ne'er were mute | B |
| When Murder with his bloody foot | B |
| And Rapine with his iron hand | B |
| Were hovering near yon mountain strand | B |
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| O yet awake the strain to tell | S |
| By every deed in song enroll'd | B |
| By every chief who fought or fell | S |
| For Albion's weal in battle bold | B |
| From Coilgach first who rolled his car | A |
| Through the deep ranks of Roman war | A |
| To him of veteran memory dear | A |
| Who victor died on Aboukir | A |
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| By all their swords by all their scars | T |
| By all their names a mighty spell | S |
| By all their wounds by all their wars | U |
| Arise the mighty strain to tell | S |
| For fiercer than fierce Hengist's strain | V |
| More impious than the heathen Dane | V |
| More grasping than all grasping Rome | W |
| Gaul's ravening legions hither come | X |
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| The wind is hush'd and still the lake | Y |
| Strange murmurs fill my tinkling ears | Z |
| Bristles my hair my sinews quake | Y |
| At the dread voice of other years | Z |
| When targets clash'd and bugles rung | P |
| And blades round warriors' heads were flung | P |
| The foremost of the band were we | A |
| And hymned the joys of liberty | A |
Walter Scott (sir)
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