The Great Calamity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCBDECEDFGHGIJIJ AJAJ AKAKLJMJ ALANOAOAPAPA DQDQRARASASA TUTU| MacFierce'un came to Whiskeyhurst | A |
| When summer days were hot | A |
| And bided there wi' Jock MacThirst | A |
| A brawny brother Scot | A |
| Good faith They made the whisky fly | B |
| Like Highland chieftains true | C |
| And when they'd drunk the beaker dry | B |
| They sang We are nae fou | D |
| There's nae folk like oor ain folk | E |
| Sae gallant and sae true | C |
| They sang the only Scottish joke | E |
| Which is We are nae fou | D |
| Said bold MacThirst Let Saxons jaw | F |
| Aboot their great concerns | G |
| But Bonnie Scotland beats them a' | H |
| The Land o' Cakes and Burns | G |
| The land of pairtridge deer and grouse | I |
| Fill up your glass I beg | J |
| There's muckle whiskey i' the house | I |
| Forbye what's in the keg | J |
| And here a hearty laugh he laughed | A |
| Just come wi' me I beg | J |
| MacFierce'un saw with pleasure daft | A |
| A fifty gallon keg | J |
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| Losh man that's graund MacFierce'un cried | A |
| Saw ever man the like | K |
| Moo wi' the daylicht I maun ride | A |
| To meet a Southron tyke | K |
| But I'll be back ere summer's gone | L |
| So bide for me I beg | J |
| We'll mak' a graund assault upon | M |
| Yon deevil of a keg | J |
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| MacFierce'un rode to Whiskeyhurst | A |
| When summer days were gone | L |
| And there he met with Jock MacThirst | A |
| Was greetin' all alone | N |
| MacThirst what gars ye look sae blank | O |
| Hae all your wuts gane daft | A |
| Has that accursed Southron bank | O |
| Called up your overdraft | A |
| Is all your grass burnt up wi' drouth | P |
| Is wool and hides gane flat | A |
| MacThirst replied Guid friend in truth | P |
| 'Tis muckle waur than that | A |
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| Has sair misfortune cursed your life | D |
| That you should weep sae free | Q |
| Is harm upon your bonnie wife | D |
| The children at your knee | Q |
| Is scaith upon your house and hame | R |
| MacThirst upraised his head | A |
| My bairns hae done the deed of shame | R |
| 'Twere better they were dead | A |
| To think my bonnie infant son | S |
| Should do the deed o' guilt | A |
| He let the whiskey spigot run | S |
| And a' the whiskey's spilt | A |
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| Upon them both these words did bring | T |
| A solemn silence deep | U |
| Good faith it is a fearsome thing | T |
| To see two strong men weep | U |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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