Schiehallion by Herbert Trench
Schiehallion by Herbert Trench is a lyric set beside a grey loch running up to the mountain. A speaker rows a wee boat, recalls a woman who wandered there with them and strayed down from the heights, and bids the sail of the wild swan turn back to Schiehallion.
By Herbert Trench · First published 1901 · Genre: Lyric poetry, Elegy, Scottish folk song · 137 words
First lines
Far the grey loch runs / Up to Schiehallion. / Lap, lap the water flows / Where my wee boatie rows; / Greenly a star shows / Over Schiehallion.
She that I wander'd wi' / Over Schiehallion, -- / How far ayont your ken, / Crags of the merry glen, / Stray'd she, that wander'd then / Down fra Schiehallion!
Sail of the wild swan / Turn to Schiehallion! / Here where the rushes rise / Low the black hunter lies; / Beat thou the pure skies / Back to Schiehallion!
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Genres
- Lyric poetry — A short, intensely personal first-person utterance of longing, sung rather than narrated, organized in three stanzas with a recurring refrain on Schiehallion
- Elegy — Mourns a beloved who has strayed away and is lost to the speaker, with absence and grief as the emotional core
- Scottish folk song — The Scots dialect (wee, ayont, fra, wi), the onomatopoeic 'Lap, lap the water' refrain and the small boat on a loch echo traditional Scottish song
- Literary ballad — Stanzaic repetition, refrains and a hint of a narrative about a woman who wandered away give it the form of a ballad, though without a full story
Tags
Scottish poetry · Scots dialect · Scottish Highlands · Schiehallion mountain · grey loch · lyric poetry · nature poetry · rowing · small boat · evening star · dusk · wild swan
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Herbert Trench
- Date: 1901 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric poetry, Elegy, Scottish folk song, Literary ballad, Love poetry
- Length: 137 words
- Structure: 1 section, 3 paragraphs
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