The Prinkin' Leddie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB BBCC BBAA DDEF AADD AAAA BBBB| The Hielan' lassies are a' for spinnin' | A |
| The Lowlan' lassies for prinkin' and pinnin' | A |
| My daddie w'u'd chide me an' so w'u'd my minnie | A |
| If I s'u'd bring hame sic a prinkin' leddie | B |
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| Now haud your tongue ye haverin' coward | B |
| For whilst I'm young I'll go flounced an' flowered | B |
| In lutestring striped like the strings o' a fiddle | C |
| Wi' gowden girdles aboot my middle | C |
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| In your Hielan' glen where the rain pours steady | B |
| Ye'll be gay an' glad for a prinkin' leddie | B |
| Where the rocks are all bare an' the turf is all sodden | A |
| An' lassies gae sad in their homespun an' hodden | A |
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| My silks are stiff wi' patterns o' siller | D |
| I've an ermine hood like the hat o' a miller | D |
| I've chains o' coral like rowan berries | E |
| An' a cramoisie mantle that cam' frae Paris | F |
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| Ye'll be glad for the glint o' its scarlet linin' | A |
| When the larks are up an' the sun is shinin' | A |
| When the winds are up an' ower the heather | D |
| Your heart'll be gay wi' my gowden feather | D |
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| When the skies are low an' the earth is frozen | A |
| Ye'll be gay an' glad for the leddie ye've chosen | A |
| When ower the snow I go prinkin' an' prancin' | A |
| In my wee red slippers were made for dancin' | A |
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| It's better a leddie like Solomon's lily | B |
| Than one that'll run like a Hielan' gillie | B |
| A linkin' it ower the leas my laddie | B |
| In a raggedy kilt an' a belted pladdie | B |
Elinor Morton Wylie
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