Alison Gross Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB ABAC DEAE FBAB GHIH HBAC FBJC HKKK HHHH LBHB BBJB KMNM HBOB| O Alison Gross that lives in yon tow'r | A |
| The ugliest witch in the north countrie | A |
| She trysted me ae day up till her bow'r | A |
| And mony fair speeches she made to me | B |
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| She straik'd my head and she kaim'd my hair | A |
| And she set me down saftly on her knee | B |
| Says If ye will be my leman sae true | A |
| Sae mony braw things as I will you gi'e | C |
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| She shaw'd me a mantle of red scarlet | D |
| With gowden flowers and fringes fine | E |
| Says If ye will be my leman sae true | A |
| This goodly gift it shall be thine | E |
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| Awa awa ye ugly witch | F |
| Hand far awa and let me be | B |
| I never will be your leman sae true | A |
| And I wish I were out of your company | B |
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| She neist brocht a sark of the saftest silk | G |
| Weel wrought with pearls about the band | H |
| Says If ye will be my ain true love | I |
| This goodly gift ye shall command | H |
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| She show'd me a cup of the good red gowd | H |
| Weel set with jewels sae fair to see | B |
| Says If ye will be my leman sae true | A |
| This goodly gift I will you gi'e | C |
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| Awa awa ye ugly witch | F |
| Haud far awa and let me be | B |
| For I wadna ance kiss your ugly mouth | J |
| For all the gifts that ye cou'd gi'e | C |
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| She's turn'd her richt and round about | H |
| And thrice she blew on a grass green horn | K |
| And she sware by the moon and the stars aboon | K |
| That she'd gar me rue the day I was born | K |
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| Then out has she ta'en a silver wand | H |
| And she turn'd her three times round and round | H |
| She mutter'd sic words that my strength it fail'd | H |
| And I fell down senseless on the ground | H |
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| She turn'd me into an ugly worm | L |
| And gar'd me toddle about the tree | B |
| And aye on ilka Saturday night | H |
| Auld Alison Gross she came to me | B |
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| With silver basin and silver kame | B |
| To kame my headie upon her knee | B |
| But rather than kiss her ugly mouth | J |
| I'd ha'e toddled for ever about the tree | B |
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| But as it fell out on last Hallow e'en | K |
| When the seely court was ridin' by | M |
| The queen lighted down on a gowan bank | N |
| Near by the tree where I wont to lye | M |
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| She took me up in her milk white hand | H |
| And she straik'd me three times o'er her knee | B |
| She chang'd me again to my ain proper shape | O |
| And nae mair do I toddle about the tree | B |
Andrew Lang
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