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