Yarrow Unvisited Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DE FDDDDEDE GCHCDEDE IIDIDEDE JKJKLEME ICNCOEPE QEQEEEEE HDHDDEJE RSTSEEEESee the various Poems the scene of which is laid upon | A |
the banks of the Yarrow in particular the exquisite | B |
Ballad of Hamilton beginning | C |
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Busk ye busk ye my bonny bonny Bride | D |
Busk ye busk ye my winsome Marrow | E |
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From Stirling castle we had seen | F |
The mazy Forth unravelled | D |
Had trod the banks of Clyde and Tay | D |
And with the Tweed had travelled | D |
And when we came to Clovenford | D |
Then said my winsome Marrow | E |
Whate'er betide we'll turn aside | D |
And see the Braes of Yarrow | E |
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Let Yarrow folk frae Selkirk town | G |
Who have been buying selling | C |
Go back to Yarrow 'tis their own | H |
Each maiden to her dwelling | C |
On Yarrow's banks let her herons feed | D |
Hares couch and rabbits burrow | E |
But we will downward with the Tweed | D |
Nor turn aside to Yarrow | E |
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There's Galla Water Leader Haughs | I |
Both lying right before us | I |
And Dryborough where with chiming Tweed | D |
The lintwhites sing in chorus | I |
There's pleasant Tiviot dale a land | D |
Made blithe with plough and harrow | E |
Why throw away a needful day | D |
To go in search of Yarrow | E |
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What's Yarrow but a river bare | J |
That glides the dark hills under | K |
There are a thousand such elsewhere | J |
As worthy of your wonder | K |
Strange words they seemed of slight and scorn | L |
My True love sighed for sorrow | E |
And looked me in the face to think | M |
I thus could speak of Yarrow | E |
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Oh green said I are Yarrow's holms | I |
And sweet is Yarrow flowing | C |
Fair hangs the apple frae the rock | N |
But we will leave it growing | C |
O'er hilly path and open Strath | O |
We'll wander Scotland thorough | E |
But though so near we will not turn | P |
Into the dale of Yarrow | E |
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Let beeves and home bred kine partake | Q |
The sweets of Burn mill meadow | E |
The swan on still St Mary's Lake | Q |
Float double swan and shadow | E |
We will not see them will not go | E |
To day nor yet to morrow | E |
Enough if in our hearts we know | E |
There's such a place as Yarrow | E |
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Be Yarrow stream unseen unknown | H |
It must or we shall rue it | D |
We have a vision of our own | H |
Ah why should we undo it | D |
The treasured dreams of times long past | D |
We'll keep them winsome Marrow | E |
For when we'er there although 'tis fair | J |
'Twill be another Yarrow | E |
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If Care with freezing years should come | R |
And wandering seem but folly | S |
Should we be loth to stir from home | T |
And yet be melancholy | S |
Should life be dull and spirits low | E |
'Twill soothe us in our sorrow | E |
That earth has something yet to show | E |
The bonny holms of Yarrow | E |
William Wordsworth
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