To Robert Louis Stevenson With Kirk's 'secret Commonwealth' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAB CCCDCD AAAEAE FFFAFA GGGGGG FEFFFF| O Louis you that like them maist | A |
| Ye're far frae kelpie wraith and ghaist | A |
| And fairy dames no unco chaste | A |
| And haunted cell | B |
| Among a heathen clan ye're placed | A |
| That kensna hell | B |
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| Ye hae nae heather peat nor birks | C |
| Nae trout in a' yer burnies lurks | C |
| There are nae bonny U P kirks | C |
| An awfu' place | D |
| Nane kens the Covenant o' Works | C |
| Frae that o' Grace | D |
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| But whiles maybe to them ye'll read | A |
| Blads o' the Covenanting creed | A |
| And whiles their pagan wames ye'll feed | A |
| On halesome parritch | E |
| And syne ye'll gar them learn a screed | A |
| O' the Shorter Carritch | E |
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| Yet thae uncovenanted shavers | F |
| Hae rowth ye say o' clash and clavers | F |
| O' gods and etins auld wives' havers | F |
| But their delight | A |
| The voice o' him that tells them quavers | F |
| Just wi' fair fright | A |
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| And ye might tell ayont the faem | G |
| Thae Hieland clashes o' our hame | G |
| To speak the truth I takna shame | G |
| To half believe them | G |
| And stamped wi' Tusitala's name | G |
| They'll a' receive them | G |
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| And folk to come ayont the sea | F |
| May hear the yowl o' the Banshie | E |
| And frae the water kelpie flee | F |
| Ere a' things cease | F |
| And island bairns may stolen be | F |
| By the Folk o' Peace | F |
Andrew Lang
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