Loch Katrine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDAEEFF CCDABGFF CCDAHHII CCDAJJII CCDAAAII CCDABeautiful Loch Katrine in all thy majesty so grand | A |
Oh how charming and fascinating is thy silver strand | A |
Thou certainly art most lovely and worthy to be seen | B |
Especially thy beautiful bay and shrubberies green | B |
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Then away to Loch Katrine in the summer time | C |
And feast on its scenery most lovely and sublime | C |
There's no other scene can surpass in fair Scotland | D |
It's surrounded by mountains and trees most grand | A |
And as I gaze upon it let me pause and think | E |
How many people in Glasgow of its water drink | E |
That's conveyed to them in pipes from its placid lake | F |
And are glad to get its water their thirst to slake | F |
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Then away to Loch Katrine in the summer time | C |
And feast on its scenery most lovely and sublime | C |
There's no other scene can surpass in fair Scotland | D |
It's surrounded by mountains and trees most grand | A |
The mountains on either side of it are beautiful to be seen | B |
Likewise the steamers sailing on it with their clouds of steam | G |
And their shadows on its crystal waters as they pass along | F |
Is enough to make the tourist burst into song | F |
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Then away to Loch Katrine in the summer time | C |
And feast on its scenery most lovely and sublime | C |
There's no other scene can surpass in fair Scotland | D |
It's surrounded by mountains and trees most grand | A |
'Tis beautiful to see its tiny wimpling rills | H |
And the placid Loch in the hollow of a circle of hills | H |
Glittering like silver in the sun's bright array | I |
Also many a promontory little creek and bay | I |
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Then away to Loch Katrine in the summer time | C |
And feast on its scenery most lovely and sublime | C |
There's no other scene can surpass in fair Scotland | D |
It's surrounded by mountains and trees most grand | A |
Then to the east there's the finely wooded Ellen's Isle | J |
There the tourist can the tedious hours beguile | J |
As he gazes on its white gravelled beautiful bay | I |
It will help to drive dull care away | I |
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Then away to Loch Katrine in the summer time | C |
And feast on its scenery most lovely and sublime | C |
There's no other scene can surpass in fair Scotland | D |
It's surrounded by mountains and trees most grand | A |
The mountains Ben An and Ben Venue are really very grand | A |
Likewise the famous and clear silver strand | A |
Where the bold Rob Roy spent many a happy day | I |
With his faithful wife near by its silvery bay | I |
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Then away to Loch Katrine in the summer time | C |
And feast on its scenery most lovely and sublime | C |
There's no other scene can surpass in fair Scotland | D |
It's surrounded by mountains and trees most grand | A |
William Topaz Mcgonagall
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