The Pawky Duke Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCBCAC EFGFBFAF HFHFBFIF FCACBCCC JCACBCKC ALGMBMFL ACACBCAC| It is hoped that all Scottish characteristics known to the Southron are here pawkiness and pride of race love of the dram redness of hair eldership of and objection to instrumental music in the Kirk hatred of the Sassenach inability to see a joke etc etc An undying portrait is thus put on record of the typical Scot of the day | A |
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| There aince was a very pawky duke | B |
| Far kent for his joukery pawkery | C |
| Wha owned a hoose wi' a gran' outlook | D |
| A gairden an' a rockery | C |
| Hech mon The pawky duke | B |
| Hoot ay An' a rockery | C |
| For a bonnet laird wi' a sma' kailyaird | A |
| Is naethin' but a mockery | C |
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| He dwalt far up a Heelant glen | E |
| Where the foamin' flood an' the crag is | F |
| He dined each day on the usquebae | G |
| An' he washed it doon wi' haggis | F |
| Hech mon The pawky duke | B |
| Hoot ay An' a haggis | F |
| For that's the way that the Heelanters dae | A |
| Whaur the foamin' flood an' the crag is | F |
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| He wore a sporran an' a dirk | H |
| An' a beard like besom bristles | F |
| He was an elder o' the kirk | H |
| And he hated kists o' whistles | F |
| Hech mon The pawky duke | B |
| An' doon on kists o' whistles | F |
| They're a' reid heidit fowk up North | I |
| Wi' beards like besom bristles | F |
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| His hair was reid as ony rose | F |
| His legs was lang an' bony | C |
| He keepit a hoast an' a rubbin' post | A |
| An' a buskit cockernony | C |
| Hech mon The pawky duke | B |
| An' a buskit cockernony | C |
| Ye ne'er will ken true Heelantmen | C |
| Wha'll own they hadna ony | C |
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| An' if he met a Sassenach | J |
| Attour in Caledonia | C |
| He gart him lilt in a cotton kilt | A |
| Till he took an acute pneumonia | C |
| Hech mon The pawky duke | B |
| An' a Sassenach wi' pneumonia | C |
| He lat him feel that the Land o' the Leal | K |
| 'S nae far frae Caledonia | C |
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| Then aye afore he socht his bed | A |
| He danced the Gillie Callum | L |
| An' wi's Kilmarnock owre his neb | G |
| What evil could befall him | M |
| Hech mon The pawky duke | B |
| What evil could befall him | M |
| When he cast his buits an' soopled his cuits | F |
| Wi' a gude gaun Gillie Callum | L |
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| But they brocht a joke they did indeed | A |
| Ae day for his eedification | C |
| An' they needed to trephine his heid | A |
| Sae he deed o' the operation | C |
| Hech mon The pawky duke | B |
| Wae's me for the operation | C |
| For weel I wot this typical Scot | A |
| Was a michty loss to the nation | C |
David Rorie M.d.
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