Brithers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB DDEDFD EDECDD EEGEDE EDHDDD IEDEDE EDCDHD HBJBKB DDDDJD LEMEHE| 'Twas up at the tree near the heid o' the glen | A |
| I keppit a tinkler chiel | B |
| The cauld wind whistled his auld duds through | C |
| He was waesomely doon at the heel | B |
| But he made me free o' his company | D |
| For he kent that I wished him weel | B |
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| He lookit me fairly 'tween the een | D |
| He cam' o' an auncient clan | D |
| He gae me gude day in a freendly way | E |
| While he spak me man to man | D |
| Though my gibbles were a' for the human frame | F |
| An' his for kettle an' pan | D |
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| Ye're oot i' the warst that the weather can dae | E |
| Ye're free o' the road like me | D |
| I palmer aboot for kettles to cloot | E |
| Wi' an orra like weird to dree | C |
| An' oor job's to men' whativer'll men' | D |
| Wi' luck to fix oor fee | D |
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| Brithers baith o' the auld high road | E |
| Yet the Deil hae General Wade | E |
| For learnin's the shauchle instead o' the step | G |
| Wi' the weary wark o' his spade | E |
| Till the Jew an' the Sassenach lord it noo | D |
| Owre the hills whaur the heroes gaed | E |
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| O gang ye East quo' I or Wast | E |
| Or whither awa' gang ye | D |
| Will ye come to a hoose whaur a gude man bides | H |
| For a tastin' o' barley bree | D |
| Ye can howk i' the kebbuck an' howk again | D |
| As lang as there's kebbuck to pree | D |
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| Or seek ye a saxpence to slocken your drooth | I |
| Ye needna be langer in doot | E |
| Ye can hae a bit hurl to help ye on | D |
| An' I'll get ye a pan to cloot | E |
| I'se warrant I'll freely lat ye in | D |
| An' as freely lat ye oot | E |
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| A tuft o' the broom was knotted wi' tow | E |
| An' a rag on't fluttered free | D |
| While he shook his heid owre some ferlies there | C |
| That I'm bathered if I could see | D |
| Though I kent my soul was sib to his | H |
| In a queer free masonry | D |
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| The wife's a mile on the road afore's | H |
| An' the bairnies farther still | B |
| I canna keep tryst wi' doctor folk | J |
| But I'll borrow the price o' a gill | B |
| An' I'll pay ye back when we've finished oor tack | K |
| O' a' that's gude an' ill | B |
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| He spat on the siller an' pooched it syne | D |
| An' quately winked an e'e | D |
| The road's a bond that we canna deny | D |
| An' its linkit you an' me | D |
| In the kindly yoke o' the gaun about folk | J |
| Whauriver they chance to be | D |
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| On the bowl o's cutty he scartit a spunk | L |
| An' he leggit it doon the wind | E |
| Gin his claes would hae fleggit a bubbly jock | M |
| Guid Lord he'd an easy mind | E |
| An' oor forebears maybe were near hand freen's | H |
| For a' that I can find | E |
David Rorie
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