Annan Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC ECEF EGEC HCHF GIJK LCFC CCCC MCNC CCOC BPCP MCQC GCGF RCSC CCTC| Child vol ii Early Edition | A |
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| Annan water's wading deep | B |
| And my love Annie's wondrous bonny | C |
| And I am laith she suld weet her feet | D |
| Because I love her best of ony | C |
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| Gar saddle me the bonny black | E |
| Gar saddle sune and make him ready | C |
| For I will down the Gatehope Slack | E |
| And all to see my bonny ladye | F |
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| He has loupen on the bonny black | E |
| He stirr'd him wi' the spur right sairly | G |
| But or he wan the Gatehope Slack | E |
| I think the steed was wae and weary | C |
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| He has loupen on the bonny gray | H |
| He rade the right gate and the ready | C |
| I trow he would neither stint nor stay | H |
| For he was seeking his bonny ladye | F |
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| O he has ridden o'er field and fell | G |
| Through muir and moss and mony a mire | I |
| His spurs o' steel were sair to bide | J |
| And fra her fore feet flew the fire | K |
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| Now bonny grey now play your part | L |
| Gin ye be the steed that wins my deary | C |
| Wi' corn and hay ye'se be fed for aye | F |
| And never spur sall make you wearie | C |
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| The gray was a mare and a right good mare | C |
| But when she wan the Annan water | C |
| She couldna hae ridden a furlong mair | C |
| Had a thousand merks been wadded at her | C |
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| O boatman boatman put off your boat | M |
| Put off your boat for gowden monie | C |
| I cross the drumly stream the night | N |
| Or never mair I see my honey | C |
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| O I was sworn sae late yestreen | C |
| And not by ae aith but by many | C |
| And for a' the gowd in fair Scotland | O |
| I dare na take ye through to Annie | C |
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| The side was stey and the bottom deep | B |
| Frae bank to brae the water pouring | P |
| And the bonny grey mare did sweat for fear | C |
| For she heard the water kelpy roaring | P |
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| O he has pou'd aff his dapperpy coat | M |
| The silver buttons glanced bonny | C |
| The waistcoat bursted aff his breast | Q |
| He was sae full of melancholy | C |
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| He has ta'en the ford at that stream tail | G |
| I wot he swam both strong and steady | C |
| But the stream was broad and his strength did fail | G |
| And he never saw his bonny ladye | F |
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| O wae betide the frush saugh wand | R |
| And wae betide the bush of brier | C |
| It brake into my true love's hand | S |
| When his strength did fail and his limbs did tire | C |
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| And wae betide ye Annan water | C |
| This night that ye are a drumlie river | C |
| For over thee I'll build a bridge | T |
| That ye never more true love may sever | C |
Andrew Lang
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