The Orphan Maid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGHGIEIEJKJK LMLMNJNJOEPEQEQE| November's hail cloud drifts away | A |
| November's sunbeam wan | B |
| Looks coldly on the castle grey | A |
| When forth comes Lady Anne | C |
| The orphan by the oak was set | D |
| Her arms her feet were bare | E |
| The hail drops had not melted yet | D |
| Amid her raven hair | E |
| And dame she said by all the ties | F |
| That child and mother know | G |
| Aid one who never knew these joys | H |
| Relieve an orphan's woe | G |
| The lady said An orphan's state | I |
| Is hard and sad to bear | E |
| Yet worse the widow'd mother's fate | I |
| Who mourns both lord and heir | E |
| Twelve times the rolling year has sped | J |
| Since when from vengeance wild | K |
| Of fierce Strathallan's Chief I fled | J |
| Forth's eddies whelm'd my child | K |
| Twelve times the year its course has borne | L |
| The wandering maid replied | M |
| Since fishers on Saint Bridget's morn | L |
| Drew nets on Campsie side | M |
| Saint Bridget sent no scaly spoil | N |
| An infant wellnigh dead | J |
| They saved and rear'd in want and toil | N |
| To beg from you her bred | J |
| That orphan maid the lady kiss'd | O |
| My husband's looks you bear | E |
| Saint Bridget and her morn be bless'd | P |
| You are his widow's heir | E |
| They've robed that maid so poor and pale | Q |
| In silk and sandals rare | E |
| And pearls for drops of frozen hail | Q |
| Are glistening in her hair | E |
Walter Scott (sir)
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