Ailsie, My Bairn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDEE ABBB FBAB ABBB FGBG AFGF HIJI| Lie in my arms Ailsie my bairn | A |
| Lie in my arms and dinna greit | B |
| Long time been past syn I kenned you last | B |
| But my harte been allwais the same my swete | B |
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| Ailsie I colde not say you ill | C |
| For out of the mist of your bitter tears | D |
| And the prayers that rise from your bonnie eyes | E |
| Cometh a promise of oder yeres | E |
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| I mind the time when we lost our bairn | A |
| Do you ken that time A wambling tot | B |
| You wandered away ane simmer day | B |
| And we hunted and called and found you not | B |
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| I promised God if He'd send you back | F |
| Alwaies to keepe and to love you childe | B |
| And I'm thinking again of that promise when | A |
| I see you creep out of the storm sae wild | B |
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| You came back then as you come back now | A |
| Your kirtle torn and your face all white | B |
| And you stood outside and knockit and cried | B |
| Just as you dearie did to night | B |
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| Oh never a word of the cruel wrang | F |
| That has faded your cheek and dimmed your ee | G |
| And never a word of the fause fause lord | B |
| Only a smile and a kiss for me | G |
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| Lie in my arms as long long syne | A |
| And sleepe on my bosom deere wounded thing | F |
| I'm nae sae glee as I used to be | G |
| Or I'd sing you the songs I used to sing | F |
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| But Ile kemb my fingers thro' y'r haire | H |
| And nane shall know but you and I | I |
| Of the love and the faith that came to us baith | J |
| When Ailsie my bairn came home to die | I |
Eugene Field
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