The Outlaw Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE ABA EFEFGHI ABAB JKJ JLJ AHAH JMJ MNMO AHAH GDIDPQP R AJAJO Brignall banks are wild and fair | A |
And Greta woods are green | B |
And you may gather garlands there | A |
Would grace a summer queen | B |
And as I rode by Dalton Hall | C |
Beneath the turrets high | D |
A Maiden on the castle wall | C |
Was singing merrily | E |
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'O Brignall banks are fresh and fair | A |
And Greta woods are green | B |
I'd rather rove with Edmund there | A |
Than reign our English Queen ' | - |
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'If Maiden thou wouldst wend with me | E |
To leave both tower and town | F |
Thou first must guess what life lead we | E |
That dwell by dale and down | F |
And if thou canst that riddle read | G |
As read full well you may | H |
Then to the green wood shalt thou speed | I |
As blithe as Queen of May ' | - |
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Yet sung she 'Brignall banks are fair | A |
And Greta woods are green | B |
I'd rather rove with Edmund there | A |
Than reign our English Queen | B |
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'I read you by your bugle horn | J |
And by your palfrey good | K |
I read you for a Ranger sworn | J |
To keep the King's green wood ' | - |
'A Ranger Lady winds his horn | J |
And 'tis at peep of light | L |
His blast is heard at merry morn | J |
And mine at dead of night ' | - |
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Yet sung she 'Brignall banks are fair | A |
And Greta woods are gay | H |
I would I were with Edmund there | A |
To reign his Queen of May | H |
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'With burnish'd brand and musketoon | J |
So gallantly you come | M |
I read you for a bold Dragoon | J |
That lists the tuck of drum ' | - |
'I list no more the tuck of drum | M |
No more the trumpet hear | N |
But when the beetle sounds his hum | M |
My comrades take the spear | O |
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'And O though Brignall banks be fair | A |
And Greta woods be gay | H |
Yet mickle must the maiden dare | A |
Would reign my Queen of May | H |
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'Maiden a nameless life I lead | G |
A nameless death I'll die | D |
The fiend whose lantern lights the mead | I |
Were better mate than I | D |
And when I'm with my comrades met | P |
Beneath the green wood bough | Q |
What once we were we all forget | P |
Nor think what we are now ' | - |
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Chorus | R |
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Yet Brignall banks are fresh and fair | A |
And Greta woods are green | J |
And you may gather flowers there | A |
Would grace a summer queen | J |
Walter Scott (sir)
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