A Jacobite's Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFDGDHCFIJJJJ| A | |
| There's nae mair lands to tyne my dear | B |
| And nae mair lives to gie | C |
| Though a man think sair to live nae mair | D |
| There's but one day to die | E |
| For a' things come and a' days gane | F |
| What needs ye rend your hair | D |
| But kiss me till the morn's morrow | G |
| Then I'll kiss ye nae mair | D |
| O lands are lost and life's losing | H |
| And what were they to gie | C |
| Fu' mony a man gives all he can | F |
| But nae man else gives ye | I |
| Our king wons ower the sea's water | J |
| And I in prison sair | J |
| But I'll win out the morn's morrow | J |
| And ye'll see me nae mair | J |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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