Young Bicham Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FCGC HCIE JKLK MCIC NCIC OCPC QGRG SCTC TCSC UVWV CXVY VCCC ZCJC A2CJC WCB2C C2CB2C CCKC A2CD2C VCJC JCE2C E2F2RC G2G2KG2| Child vol ii | A |
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| In London city was Bicham born | B |
| He longd strange countries for to see | C |
| But he was taen by a savage Moor | D |
| Who handld him right cruely | E |
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| For thro his shoulder he put a bore | F |
| An thro the bore has pitten a tree | C |
| And he's gard him draw the carts o wine | G |
| Where horse and oxen had wont to be | C |
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| He's casten him in a dungeon deep | H |
| Where he coud neither hear nor see | C |
| He's shut him up in a prison strong | I |
| An he's handld him right cruely | E |
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| O this Moor he had but ae daughter | J |
| I wot her name was Shusy Pye | K |
| She's doen her to the prison house | L |
| And she's calld young Bicham one word by | K |
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| O hae ye ony lands or rents | M |
| Or citys in your ain country | C |
| Coud free you out of prison strong | I |
| An coud maintain a lady free | C |
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| O London city is my own | N |
| An other citys twa or three | C |
| Coud loose me out o prison strong | I |
| An could maintain a lady free | C |
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| O she has bribed her father's men | O |
| Wi meikle goud and white money | C |
| She's gotten the key o the prison doors | P |
| And she has set Young Bicham free | C |
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| She's gi'n him a loaf o good white bread | Q |
| But an a flask o Spanish wine | G |
| An she bad him mind on the ladie's love | R |
| That sae kindly freed him out o pine | G |
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| Go set your foot on good ship board | S |
| An haste you back to your ain country | C |
| An before that seven years has an end | T |
| Come back again love and marry me | C |
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| It was long or seven years had an end | T |
| She longd fu sair her love to see | C |
| She's set her foot on good ship board | S |
| An turnd her back on her ain country | C |
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| She's saild up so has she down | U |
| Till she came to the other side | V |
| She's landed at Young Bicham's gates | W |
| An I hop this day she sal be his bride | V |
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| Is this Young Bicham's gates says she | C |
| Or is that noble prince within | X |
| He's up the stair wi his bonny bride | V |
| An monny a lord and lady wi him | Y |
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| O has he taen a bonny bride | V |
| An has he clean forgotten me | C |
| An sighing said that gay lady | C |
| I wish I were in my ain country | C |
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| She's pitten her ban in her pocket | Z |
| An gin the porter guineas three | C |
| Says Take ye that ye proud porter | J |
| An bid the bridegroom speak to me | C |
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| O whan the porter came up the stair | A2 |
| He's fa'n low down upon his knee | C |
| Won up won up ye proud porter | J |
| And what makes a' this courtesy | C |
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| O I've been porter at your gates | W |
| This mair nor seven years an three | C |
| But there is a lady at them now | B2 |
| The like of whom I never did see | C |
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| For on every finger she has a ring | C2 |
| An on the mid finger she has three | C |
| An there's as meikle goud aboon her brow | B2 |
| As woud buy an earldom o lan to me | C |
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| Then up it started Young Bicham | C |
| An sware so loud by Our Lady | C |
| It can be nane but Shusy Pye | K |
| That has come oor the sea to me | C |
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| O quickly ran he down the stair | A2 |
| O fifteen steps he has made but three | C |
| He's tane his bonny love in his arms | D2 |
| An a wot he kissd her tenderly | C |
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| O hae you tane a bonny bride | V |
| An hae you quite forsaken me | C |
| An hae ye quite forgotten her | J |
| That gae you life an liberty | C |
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| She's lookit oer her left shoulder | J |
| To hide the tears stood in her ee | C |
| Now fare thee well Young Bicham she says | E2 |
| I'll strive to think nae mair on thee | C |
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| Take back your daughter madam he says | E2 |
| An a double dowry I'll gie her wi | F2 |
| For I maun marry my first true love | R |
| That's done and suffered so much for me | C |
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| He's tak his bonny love by the han | G2 |
| And led her to yon fountain stane | G2 |
| He's changed her name frae Shusy Pye | K |
| An he's cald her his bonny love Lady Jane | G2 |
Andrew Lang
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