The Young Ruthven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB ABBB ACDC DCEC EEBE EECC ABAF ABAB EADA ACAC ACBC ABBB BAAC AEGE HEAE IEAE JABA EBBB BEAAThe King has gi'en the Queen a gift | A |
For her May day's propine | B |
He's gi'en her a band o' the diamond stane | B |
Set in the siller fine | B |
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The Queen she walked in Falkland yaird | A |
Beside the Hollans green | B |
And there she saw the bonniest man | B |
That ever her eyes had seen | B |
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His coat was the Ruthven white and red | A |
Sae sound asleep was he | C |
The Queen she cried on May Beatrix | D |
That seely lad to see | C |
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Oh wha sleeps here May Beatrix | D |
Without the leave o' me | C |
Oh wha suld it be but my young brother | E |
Frae Padua ower the sea | C |
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My father was the Earl Gowrie | E |
An Earl o' high degree | E |
But they hae slain him by fause treason | B |
And gar'd my brothers flee | E |
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At Padua hae they learned their leir | E |
In the fields o' Italie | E |
And they hae crossed the saut sea faem | C |
And a' for love o' me | C |
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The Queen has cuist her siller band | A |
About his craig o' snaw | B |
But still he slept and naething kenned | A |
Aneth the Hollans shaw | F |
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The King he daundered thro' the yaird | A |
He saw the siller shine | B |
And wha quoth he is this galliard | A |
That wears yon gift o' mine | B |
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The King has gane till the Queen's ain bower | E |
An angry man that day | A |
But bye there cam' May Beatrix | D |
And stole the band away | A |
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And she's run in by the dern black yett | A |
Straight till the Queen ran she | C |
Oh tak ye back your siller band | A |
Or it gar my brother dee | C |
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The Queen has linked her siller band | A |
About her middle sma' | C |
And then she heard her ain gudeman | B |
Come rowting through the ha' | C |
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Oh whare he cried is the siller band | A |
I gied ye late yestreen | B |
The knops was a' o' the diamond stane | B |
Set in the siller sheen | B |
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Ye hae camped birling at the wine | B |
A' nicht till the day did daw | A |
Or ye wad ken your siller band | A |
About my middle sma' | C |
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The King he stude the King he glowered | A |
Sae hard as a man micht stare | E |
Deil hae me Like is a richt ill mark | G |
Or I saw it itherwhere | E |
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I saw it round young Ruthven's neck | H |
As he lay sleeping still | E |
And faith but the wine was wondrous guid | A |
Or my wife is wondrous ill | E |
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There was na gane a week a week | I |
A week but barely three | E |
The King has hounded John Ramsay out | A |
To gar young Ruthven dee | E |
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They took him in his brother's house | J |
Nae sword was in his hand | A |
And they hae slain him young Ruthven | B |
The bonniest in the land | A |
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And they hae slain his fair brother | E |
And laid him on the green | B |
And a' for a band o' the siller fine | B |
And a blink o' the eye o' the Queen | B |
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Oh had they set him man to man | B |
Or even ae man to three | E |
There was na a knight o' the Ramsay bluid | A |
Had gar'd Earl Gowrie dee | A |
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