The Reiver's Wedding Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ADEF GHIC AJAK LAMA ENEN JMJM AOAO APQP AMAM RMRM EMSM ATAO AMAM AUAM VMVW MAMA AXAX MYMY MQMQ AMAM EMEM AZAA2O will ye hear a mirthful bourd | A |
Or will ye hear of courtesie | B |
Or will ye hear how a gallant lord | A |
Was wedded to a gay ladye | C |
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Ca' out the kye quo' the village herd | A |
As he stood on the knowe | D |
Ca' this ane's nine and that ane's ten | E |
And bauld Lord William's cow | F |
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I swear by the light of the Michaelmas moon | G |
And the might of Mary high | H |
And by the edge of my braidsword brown | I |
They shall soon say Harden's kye | C |
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He took a bugle frae his side | A |
With names carved o'er and o'er | J |
Full many a chief of meikle pride | A |
That Border bugle bore | K |
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He blew a note baith sharp and hie | L |
Till rock and water rang around | A |
Three score of moss troopers and three | M |
Have mounted at that bugle sound | A |
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The Michaelmas moon had enter'd then | E |
And ere she wan the full | N |
Ye might see by her light in Harden glen | E |
A bow o' kye and a bassen'd bull | N |
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And loud and loud in Harden tower | J |
The quaigh gaed round wi' meikle glee | M |
For the English beef was brought in bower | J |
And the English ale flow'd merrilie | M |
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And mony a guest from Teviotside | A |
And Yarrow's Braes was there | O |
Was never a lord in Scotland wide | A |
That made more dainty fare | O |
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They ate they laugh'd they sang and quaff'd | A |
Till nought on board was seen | P |
When knight and squire were boune to dine | Q |
But a spur of silver sheen | P |
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Lord William has ta'en his berry brown steed | A |
A sore shent man was he | M |
Wait he my guests a little speed | A |
Weel feasted ye shall be | M |
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He rode him down by Falsehope burn | R |
His cousin dear to see | M |
With him to take a riding turn | R |
Wat draw the sword was he | M |
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And when he came to Falsehope glen | E |
Beneath the trysting tree | M |
On the smooth green was carved plain | S |
To Lochwood bound are we | M |
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O if they be gane to dark Lochwood | A |
To drive the Warden's gear | T |
Betwixt our names I ween there's feud | A |
I'll go and have my share | O |
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For little reck I for Johnstone's feud | A |
The Warden though he be | M |
So Lord William is away to dark Lochwood | A |
With riders barely three | M |
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The Warden's daughters in Lochwood sate | A |
Were all both fair and gay | U |
All save the Lady Margaret | A |
And she was wan and wae | M |
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The sister Jean had a full fair skin | V |
And Grace was bauld and braw | M |
But the leal fast heart her breast within | V |
It weel was worth them a' | W |
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Her father's pranked her sisters twa | M |
With meikle joy and pride | A |
But Margaret maun seek Dundrennan's wa' | M |
She ne'er can be a bride | A |
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On spear and casque by gallants gent | A |
Her sisters' scarfs were borne | X |
But never at tilt or tournament | A |
Were Margaret's colours worn | X |
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Her sisters rode to Thirlstane bower | M |
But she was left at hame | Y |
To wander round the gloomy tower | M |
And sigh young Harden's name | Y |
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Of all the knights the knight most fair | M |
From Yarrow to the Tyne | Q |
Soft sigh'd the maid is Harden's heir | M |
But ne'er can he be mine | Q |
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Of all the maids the foulest maid | A |
From Teviot to the Dee | M |
Ah sighing sad that lady said | A |
Can ne'er young Harden's be | M |
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She looked up the briery glen | E |
And up the mossy brae | M |
And she saw a score of her father's men | E |
Yclad in the Johnstone grey | M |
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O fast and fast they downwards sped | A |
The moss and briers among | Z |
And in the midst the troopers led | A |
A shackled knight along | A2 |
Walter Scott (sir)
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