The Outlaw Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE ABA EFEFGHI ABAB JKJ JLJ AHAH JMJ MNMO AHAH GDIDPQP R AJAJ

O Brignall banks are wild and fairA
And Greta woods are greenB
And you may gather garlands thereA
Would grace a summer queenB
And as I rode by Dalton HallC
Beneath the turrets highD
A Maiden on the castle wallC
Was singing merrilyE
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'O Brignall banks are fresh and fairA
And Greta woods are greenB
I'd rather rove with Edmund thereA
Than reign our English Queen '-
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'If Maiden thou wouldst wend with meE
To leave both tower and townF
Thou first must guess what life lead weE
That dwell by dale and downF
And if thou canst that riddle readG
As read full well you mayH
Then to the green wood shalt thou speedI
As blithe as Queen of May '-
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Yet sung she 'Brignall banks are fairA
And Greta woods are greenB
I'd rather rove with Edmund thereA
Than reign our English QueenB
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'I read you by your bugle hornJ
And by your palfrey goodK
I read you for a Ranger swornJ
To keep the King's green wood '-
'A Ranger Lady winds his hornJ
And 'tis at peep of lightL
His blast is heard at merry mornJ
And mine at dead of night '-
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Yet sung she 'Brignall banks are fairA
And Greta woods are gayH
I would I were with Edmund thereA
To reign his Queen of MayH
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'With burnish'd brand and musketoonJ
So gallantly you comeM
I read you for a bold DragoonJ
That lists the tuck of drum '-
'I list no more the tuck of drumM
No more the trumpet hearN
But when the beetle sounds his humM
My comrades take the spearO
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'And O though Brignall banks be fairA
And Greta woods be gayH
Yet mickle must the maiden dareA
Would reign my Queen of MayH
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'Maiden a nameless life I leadG
A nameless death I'll dieD
The fiend whose lantern lights the meadI
Were better mate than ID
And when I'm with my comrades metP
Beneath the green wood boughQ
What once we were we all forgetP
Nor think what we are now '-
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ChorusR
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Yet Brignall banks are fresh and fairA
And Greta woods are greenJ
And you may gather flowers thereA
Would grace a summer queenJ

Walter Scott (sir)



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