The Maid Of Neidpath Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DBDBEBEB FBFBDGDG HBHBIJIJ| O lovers' eyes are sharp to see | A |
| And lovers' ears in hearing | B |
| And love in life's extremity | A |
| Can lend an hour of cheering | B |
| Disease had been in Mary's bower | C |
| And slow decay from mourning | B |
| Though now she sits on Neidpath's tower | C |
| To watch her love's returning | B |
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| All sunk and dim her eyes so bright | D |
| Her form decay'd by pining | B |
| Till through her wasted hand at night | D |
| You saw the taper shining | B |
| By fits a sultry hectic hue | E |
| Across her cheek was flying | B |
| By fits so ashy pale she grew | E |
| Her maidens thought her dying | B |
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| Yet keenest powers to see and hear | F |
| Seem'd in her frame residing | B |
| Before the watch dog bunny'd his ear | F |
| She heard her lover's riding | B |
| Ere scarce a distant form was kenn'd | D |
| She knew and waved to greet him | G |
| And o'er the battlement did bend | D |
| As on the wing to meet him | G |
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| He came he passed an heedless gaze | H |
| As o'er some stranger glancing | B |
| Her welcome spoke in faltering phrase | H |
| Lost in his courser's prancing | B |
| The castle arch whose hollow tone | I |
| Returns each whisper spoken | J |
| Could scarcely catch the feeble moan | I |
| Which told her heart was broken | J |
Walter Scott (sir)
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