A Ballad Of The Sound Of Mull'1588 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DAEA FGHG AABA IJKJ AALA MALA NAOP BEJE QAQB QAQA AABA BRBR QASA AABA TABA QUVW AAQA CAXA QAVA| The Queen o' Spain had an ill gude man | A |
| The carle was auld and grey | B |
| She has keeked in the glass at Hallow een | A |
| A better chance to spae | C |
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| She's kaimit out her lang black hair | D |
| That fell below her knee | A |
| She's ta'en the apple in her hand | E |
| To see what she might see | A |
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| Then first she saw her ain fair face | F |
| And then the glass grew white | G |
| And syne as black as the mouth o' Hell | H |
| Or the sky on a winter night | G |
| - | |
| But last she saw the bonniest man | A |
| That ever her eyes had seen | A |
| His hair was gold and his eyes were grey | B |
| And his plaid was red and green | A |
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| Oh the Spanish men are unco black | I |
| And unco blate she said | J |
| And they wear their mantles swart and side | K |
| No the bonny green and red | J |
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| Oh where shall I find sic a man | A |
| That is the man for me | A |
| She has filled a ship wi' the gude red gold | L |
| And she has ta'en the sea | A |
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| And she's sailed west and she's sailed east | M |
| And mony a man she's seen | A |
| But never the man wi' the hair o' gold | L |
| And the plaid o' red and green | A |
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| And she's sailed east and she's sailed west | N |
| Till she cam' to a narrow sea | A |
| The water ran like a river in spate | O |
| And the hills were wondrous hie | P |
| - | |
| And there she spied a bonny bay | B |
| And houses on the strand | E |
| And there the man in the green and red | J |
| Came rowing frae the land | E |
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| Says Welcome here ye bonny maid | Q |
| Ye're welcome here for me | A |
| Are ye the Lady o' merry Elfland | Q |
| Or the Queen o' some far countrie | B |
| - | |
| I am na the Lady o' fair Elfland | Q |
| But I am the Queen o' Spain | A |
| He's lowted low and kissed her hand | Q |
| Says They ca' me the McLean | A |
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| Then it's a' for the aefold love o' thee | A |
| That I hae sailed the faem | A |
| But out and alas he has answered her | B |
| For I hae a wife at hame | A |
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| Ye maun cast her into a massymore | B |
| Or away on a tide swept isle | R |
| But out and alas he's answered her | B |
| For my wife's o' the bluid o' Argyll | R |
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| Oh they twa sat and they twa grat | Q |
| And made their weary maen | A |
| Till McLean has ridden to Dowart Castle | S |
| And left the Queen her lane | A |
| - | |
| His wife was a Campbell fair and fause | A |
| Says Lachlan where hae ye been | A |
| Oh I hae been at Tobermory | B |
| And kissed the hand o' a Queen | A |
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| Oh we maun send the Queen a stag | T |
| And grouse for her propine | A |
| And we'll send her a cask o' the usquebaugh | B |
| And a butt o' the red French wine | A |
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| She has put a bomb in the clairet butt | Q |
| And eke a burning lowe | U |
| She has sent them away wi' her little foot page | V |
| That cam' frae the black Lochow | W |
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| The morn McLean rade forth to see | A |
| The last blink o' his Queen | A |
| There stude her ship in the harbour gude | Q |
| Upon the water green | A |
| - | |
| But there cam' a crash like a thunder clap | C |
| And a cloud on the water green | A |
| The bonny ship in flinders flew | X |
| And drooned was the bonny Queen | A |
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| McLean he speirit nor gude nor bad | Q |
| His skian dubh he's ta'en | A |
| And he's cuttit the throat o' that fause foot page | V |
| And sundered his white hausebane | A |
Andrew Lang
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