To The Sub-prior Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCC DDEECCC FA GGHHIII JJKKLLL FFBBBGood evening Sir Priest and so late as you ride | A |
With your mule so fair and your mantle so wide | A |
But ride you through valley or ride you o'er hill | B |
There is one that has warrant to wait on you still | B |
Back back | C |
The volume black | C |
I have a warrant to carry it back | C |
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What ho Sub Prior and came you but here | D |
To conjure a book from a dead woman's bier | D |
Sain you and save you be wary and wise | E |
Ride back with the book or you'll pay for your prize | E |
Back back | C |
There's death in the track | C |
In the name of my master I bid thee bear back | C |
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In the name of My Master said the astonished monk that name before which all things created tremble I conjure thee to say what thou art that hauntest me thus | F |
The same voice replied | A |
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That which is neither ill nor well | G |
That which belongs not to Heaven nor to hell | G |
A wreath of the mist a bubble of the stream | H |
'Twixt a waking thought and a sleeping dream | H |
A form that men spy | I |
With the half shut eye | I |
In the beams of the setting sun am I | I |
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Vainly Sir Prior wouldst thou bar me my right | J |
Like the star when it shoots I can dart through the night | J |
I can dance on the torrent and ride on the air | K |
And travel the world with the bonny night mare | K |
Again again | L |
At the crook of the glen | L |
Where bickers the burnie I'll meet thee again | L |
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Men of good are bold as sackless | F |
Men of rude are wild and reckless | F |
Lie thou still | B |
In the nook of the hill | B |
For those be before thee that wish thee ill | B |
Walter Scott (sir)
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