The Jew's Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC D A EAFA GDGD FAFA FAH FBHB IJAA FBHB K H HAD DBFI DFA| The rain rins doun through Mirry land toune | A |
| Sae dois it doune the Pa | B |
| Sae dois the lads of Mirry land toune | A |
| Quhan they play at the ba' | C |
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| Than out and cam the Jewis dochter | D |
| Said 'Will ye cum in and dine ' | - |
| 'I winnae cum in I cannae cum in | A |
| Without my play feres nine ' | - |
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| Scho powd an apple reid and white | E |
| To intice the zong thing in | A |
| Scho powd an apple white and reid | F |
| And that the sweit bairne did win | A |
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| And scho has taine out a little penknife | G |
| And low down by her gair | D |
| Scho has twin'd the zong thing and his life | G |
| A word he nevir spak mair | D |
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| And out and cam the thick thick bluid | F |
| And out and cam the thin | A |
| And out and cam the bonny herts bluid | F |
| Thair was nae life left in | A |
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| Scho laid him on a dressing borde | F |
| And drest him like a swine | A |
| And laughing said 'Gae nou and pley | H |
| With zour sweit play feres nine ' | - |
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| Scho rowd him in a cake of lead | F |
| Bade him lie stil and sleip | B |
| Scho cast him in a deip draw well | H |
| Was fifty fadom deip | B |
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| Quhan bells wer rung and mass was sung | I |
| And every lady went hame | J |
| Than ilka lady had her zong sonne | A |
| Bot Lady Helen had none | A |
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| Scho rowd hir mantil hir about | F |
| And sair sair gan she weip | B |
| And she ran into the Jewis castel | H |
| Quhan they were all asleip | B |
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| 'My bonny Sir Hew my pretty Sir Hew | K |
| I pray thee to me speik ' | - |
| 'O lady rinn to the deip draw well | H |
| Gin ze zour zonne wad seik ' | - |
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| Lady Helen ran to the deip draw well | H |
| And knelt upon her kne | A |
| 'My bonny Sir Hew an ze be here | D |
| I pray thee speik to me ' | - |
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| 'The lead is wondrous heavy mither | D |
| The well is wondrous deip | B |
| A keen pen knife sticks in my hert | F |
| A word I dounae speik | I |
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| 'Gae hame gae hame my mither deir | D |
| Fetch me my windling sheet | F |
| And at the back o' Mirry land toun | A |
| Its thair we twa sall meet ' | - |
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