The Wife Of Usher's Well Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DBFB GHB GIBI JJGF GAK LMNM IOL GPLQ RMGM SSGThere lived a wife at Usher's Well | A |
And a wealthy wife was she | B |
She had three stout and stalwart sons | C |
And sent them oer the sea | B |
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They hadna been a week from her | D |
A week but barely ane | E |
When word came to the carline wife | F |
That her three sons were gane | E |
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They hadna been a week from her | D |
A week but barely three | B |
Whan word came to the carlin wife | F |
That her sons she'd never see | B |
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'I wish the wind may never cease | G |
Nor fashes in the flood | H |
Till my three sons come hame to me | B |
In earthly flesh and blood ' | - |
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It fell about the Martinmass | G |
Whan nights are lang and mirk | I |
The carline wife's three sons came hame | B |
And their hats were o the birk | I |
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It neither grew in syke nor ditch | J |
Nor yet in ony sheugh | J |
But at the gates o Paradise | G |
That birk grew fair eneugh | F |
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'Blow up the fire my maidens | G |
Bring water from the well | A |
For a' my house shall feast this night | K |
Since my three sons are well ' | - |
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And she has made to them a bed | L |
She's made it large and wide | M |
And she's taen her mantle her about | N |
Sat down at the bedside | M |
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Up then crew the red red cock | I |
And up and crew the gray | O |
The eldest to the youngest said | L |
''Tis time we were away ' | - |
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The cock he hadna crawd but once | G |
And clapp'd his wings at a' | P |
Whan the youngest to the eldest said | L |
'Brother we must awa | Q |
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'The cock doth craw the day doth daw | R |
The channerin worm doth chide | M |
Gin we be mist out o our place | G |
A sair pain we maun bide | M |
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'Fare ye weel my mother dear | S |
Fareweel to barn and byre | S |
And fare ye weel the bonny lass | G |
That kindles my mother's fire ' | - |
Andrew Lang
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