Ballade Of The Tweed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDBD EBBBBDBD FBGBBDBD C BDBD| The ferox rins in rough Loch Awe | A |
| A weary cry frae ony toun | B |
| The Spey that loups o'er linn and fa' | C |
| They praise a' ither streams aboon | B |
| They boast their braes o' bonny Doon | B |
| Gie ME to hear the ringing reel | D |
| Where shilfas sing and cushats croon | B |
| By fair Tweed side at Ashiesteel | D |
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| There's Ettrick Meggat Ail and a' | E |
| Where trout swim thick in May and June | B |
| Ye'll see them take in showers o' snaw | B |
| Some blinking cauldrife April noon | B |
| Rax ower the palmer and march broun | B |
| And syne we'll show a bonny creel | D |
| In spring or simmer late or soon | B |
| By fair Tweed side at Ashiesteel | D |
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| There's mony a water great or sma' | F |
| Gaes singing in his siller tune | B |
| Through glen and heugh and hope and shaw | G |
| Beneath the sun licht or the moon | B |
| But set us in our fishing shoon | B |
| Between the Caddon burn and Peel | D |
| And syne we'll cross the heather broun | B |
| By fair Tweed side at Ashiesteel | D |
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| ENVOY | C |
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| Deil take the dirty trading loon | B |
| Wad gar the water ca' his wheel | D |
| And drift his dyes and poisons doun | B |
| By fair Tweed side at Ashiesteel | D |
Andrew Lang
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