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