Gordon Of Brackley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFG HIAAJKLK MNONMLHL PQLRQSTS AJHJMUJV WXMXXXSA DYBYDZBZ XXAXYXXX SXDXXHX A2JHXXHB2H| Down Deeside cam Inveraye | A |
| Whistlin' and playing | B |
| An' called loud at Brackley gate | C |
| Ere the day dawning | B |
| Come Gordon of Brackley | D |
| Proud Gordon come down | E |
| There's a sword at your threshold | F |
| Mair sharp than your own | G |
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| Arise now gay Gordon | H |
| His lady 'gan cry | I |
| Look here is bold Inveraye | A |
| Driving your kye | A |
| How can I go lady | J |
| An' win them again | K |
| When I have but ae sword | L |
| And Inveraye ten | K |
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| Arise up my maidens | M |
| Wi' roke and wi' fan | N |
| How blest had I been | O |
| Had I married a man | N |
| Arise up my maidens | M |
| Tak' spear and tak' sword | L |
| Go milk the ewes Gordon | H |
| An' I will be lord | L |
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| The Gordon sprung up | P |
| Wi' his helm on his head | Q |
| Laid his hand on his sword | L |
| An' his thigh on his steed | R |
| An' he stooped low and said | Q |
| As he kissed his young dame | S |
| There's a Gordon rides out | T |
| That will never ride hame | S |
| - | |
| There rode with fierce Inveraye | A |
| Thirty and three | J |
| But wi' Brackley were nane | H |
| But his brother and he | J |
| Twa gallanter Gordons | M |
| Did never blade draw | U |
| But against three and thirty | J |
| Wae's me what are twa | V |
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| Wi' sword and wi' dagger | W |
| They rushed on him rude | X |
| The twa gallant Gordons | M |
| Lie bathed in their blude | X |
| Frae the springs o' the Dee | X |
| To the mouth o' the Tay | X |
| The Gordons mourn for him | S |
| And curse Inveraye | A |
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| O were ye at Brackley | D |
| An' what saw ye there | Y |
| Was his young widow weeping | B |
| An' tearing her hair | Y |
| I looked in at Brackley | D |
| I looked in and oh | Z |
| There was mirth there was feasting | B |
| But naething o' woe | Z |
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| As a rose bloomed the lady | X |
| An' blithe as a bride | X |
| As a bridegroom bold Inveraye | A |
| Smiled by her side | X |
| Oh she feasted him there | Y |
| As she ne'er feasted lord | X |
| While the blood of her husband | X |
| Was moist on his sword | X |
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| In her chamber she kept him | S |
| Till morning grew gray | X |
| Thro' the dark woods of Brackley | D |
| She shewed him the way | X |
| 'Yon wild hill ' she said | X |
| 'Where the sun's shining on | H |
| Is the hill of Glentanner | X |
| One kiss and begone ' | - |
| - | |
| There's grief in the cottage | A2 |
| There's grief in the ha' | J |
| For the gude gallant Gordon | H |
| That's dead an' awa' | X |
| To the bush comes the bud | X |
| An' the flower to the plain | H |
| But the gude and the brave | B2 |
| They come never again | H |
Andrew Lang
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