The Bonnie House O' Airlie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBBB EBBB B B F G HBBB BBGB IBJB KLBM KBN| It fell on a day and a bonnie simmer day | A |
| When green grew aits and barley | B |
| That there fell out a great dispute | C |
| Between Argyll and Airlie | B |
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| Argyll has raised an hunder men | D |
| An hunder harness'd rarely | B |
| And he 's awa' by the back of Dunkell | B |
| To plunder the castle of Airlie | B |
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| Lady Ogilvie looks o'er her bower window | E |
| And O but she looks warely | B |
| And there she spied the great Argyll | B |
| Come to plunder the bonnie house of Airlie | B |
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| 'Come down come down my Lady Ogilvie | B |
| Come down and kiss me fairly ' | - |
| 'O I winna kiss the fause Argyll | B |
| If he shouldna leave a standing stane in Airlie ' | - |
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| He hath taken her by the left shoulder | F |
| Says 'Dame where lies thy dowry ' | - |
| 'O it 's east and west yon wan water side | G |
| And it 's down by the banks of the Airlie ' | - |
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| They hae sought it up they hae sought it down | H |
| They hae sought it maist severely | B |
| Till they fand it in the fair plum tree | B |
| That shines on the bowling green of Airlie | B |
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| He hath taken her by the middle sae small | B |
| And O but she grat sairly | B |
| And laid her down by the bonnie burn side | G |
| Til they plunder'd the castle of Airlie | B |
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| 'Gif my gude lord war here this night | I |
| As he is with King Charlie | B |
| Neither you nor ony ither Scottish lord | J |
| Durst avow to the plundering of Airlie | B |
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| 'Gif my gude lord war now at hame | K |
| As he is with his king | L |
| There durst nae a Campbell in a' Argyll | B |
| Set fit on Airlie green | M |
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| 'Then bonnie sons I have borne unto him | K |
| The eleventh ne'er saw his daddy | B |
| But though I had an hunder mair | N |
| I'd gie them a' to King Charlie ' | - |
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