Macfadden And Macfee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFGH IJKJ LMLM NEOE EMPM JMQM IERE ESJS METE EMUM MJEJ JJMJ JMJM EJEJ VJWJ XMAM| This ballad is of great interest and as far as we know | A |
| has not hitherto appeared in print It is certainly not in | B |
| Child's Collection It was taken down from the singing of an | C |
| aged man of years in Glen Kennaquhair Internal | D |
| evidence would tend to show that the incidents recorded in | B |
| the ballad occurred in the seventeenth century and that Sir | E |
| Walter Scott had heard at least one verse of it The aged | F |
| singer now alas no more sang it to the air of Barbara | G |
| Allen | H |
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| It was an' aboot the Lammas time | I |
| In sixteen forty three sirs | J |
| That there fell oot the awfu' fecht | K |
| 'Twixt Macfadden an' Macfee sirs | J |
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| Macfadden wha was gaun to kirk | L |
| Upon the morn's morn | M |
| Had washed his kilt an' cleaned his dirk | L |
| An' combed his Sabbath sporran | M |
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| An' bein' for the time o' year | N |
| Remarkably fine weather | E |
| These articles o' dress were laid | O |
| To air upon the heather | E |
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| Waes me Macfee while dandrin' owre | E |
| The bonnie braes o' Lorne | M |
| Maun gang an' pit his muckle fit | P |
| Upon Macfadden's sporran | M |
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| A piece o' carelessness like this | J |
| The brichtest heart would sadden | M |
| An' when he saw the caitiff deed | Q |
| It fair gaed owre Macfadden | M |
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| For he was shavin' at the time | I |
| An' when the sicht he saw sir | E |
| Wi' rage he shook an' nearly took | R |
| His neb aff wi' his raazor | E |
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| A while he swore and staunched the gore | E |
| An' ere Macfee got ae lick | S |
| Macfadden cursed him heid an' heels | J |
| In comprehensive Gaelic | S |
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| Syne when his breath was a' but gane | M |
| An' when he couldna say more | E |
| He lat a muckle Heelant yell | T |
| An' at him wi' his claymore | E |
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| What sweeter sound could warrior hear | E |
| Unless it was the daddin' | M |
| That echoed oot when'er Macfee | U |
| Got hame upon Macfadden | M |
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| Nae sweeter soond I weel could ween | M |
| Exceppin' it micht be sirs | J |
| The soond that hurtled oot when'er | E |
| Macfadden hit Macfee sirs | J |
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| An awfu' fecht it was to see | J |
| A fecht baith fell an' dour sirs | J |
| For ere the tuilzie weel began | M |
| The glen was fu' o' stour sirs | J |
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| An awfu' fecht again I say't | J |
| And on each auld clay biggin' | M |
| The freends o' baith like hoodie craws | J |
| Were roostin' on the riggin' | M |
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| And aye they buckled till't wi' birr | E |
| In combat sair an' grievous | J |
| They glanced like lightnin' up Strathyre | E |
| An' thundered doon Ben Nevis | J |
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| Wha won the fecht or whilk ane lost | V |
| Was hid frae mortal e'e sirs | J |
| Nane saw the fearsome end o' baith | W |
| Macfadden an' Macfee sirs | J |
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| But still they say at break o' day | X |
| Upon the braes o' Lorne | M |
| Ye'll hear the ghaistly rustlin' o' | A |
| Macfadden's Sabbath sporran | M |
David Rorie
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