The Bonnie House O' Airly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC CCDC ECCC FCDC CCCC GCDC HCCC ICJC FDGC GCDC| Child vol vii Early Edition | A |
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| It fell on a day and a bonnie summer day | B |
| When the corn grew green and yellow | C |
| That there fell out a great dispute | D |
| Between Argyle and Airly | C |
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| The Duke o' Montrose has written to Argyle | C |
| To come in the morning early | C |
| An' lead in his men by the back O' Dunkeld | D |
| To plunder the bonnie house o' Airly | C |
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| The lady look'd o'er her window sae hie | E |
| And O but she looked weary | C |
| And there she espied the great Argyle | C |
| Come to plunder the bonnie house o' Airly | C |
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| Come down come down Lady Margaret he says | F |
| Come down and kiss me fairly | C |
| Or before the morning clear daylight | D |
| I'll no leave a standing stane in Airly | C |
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| I wadna kiss thee great Argyle | C |
| I wadna kiss thee fairly | C |
| I wadna kiss thee great Argyle | C |
| Gin you shouldna leave a standing stane Airly | C |
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| He has ta'en her by the middle sae sma' | G |
| Says Lady where is your drury | C |
| It's up and down by the bonnie burn side | D |
| Amang the planting of Airly | C |
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| They sought it up they sought it down | H |
| They sought it late and early | C |
| And found it in the bonnie balm tree | C |
| That shines on the bowling green o' Airly | C |
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| He has ta'en her by the left shoulder | I |
| And O but she grat sairly | C |
| And led her down to yon green bank | J |
| Till he plundered the bonnie house o' Airly | C |
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| O it's I hae seven braw sons she says | F |
| And the youngest ne'er saw his daddie | D |
| And altho' I had as mony mae | G |
| I wad gie them a' to Charlie | C |
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| But gin my good lord had been at hame | G |
| As this night he is wi' Charlie | C |
| There durst na a Campbell in a' the west | D |
| Hae plundered the bonnie house o' Airly | C |
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