Allison Gross Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D EBEB FBG HIG CBG JIK LBG CBM NIII OIPI QBRB BBMB ISTS IIUI| The Text is that of the Jamieson Brown MS | A |
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| The Story is one of the countless variations of the French 'Beauty and the Beast ' A modern Greek tale narrates that a nereid enamoured of a youth and by him scorned turned him into a snake till he should find another love as fair as she | B |
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| The feature of this ballad is that the queen of the fairies should have power to undo the evil done by a witch | C |
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| ALLISON GROSS | D |
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| O Allison Gross that lives in yon tow'r | E |
| The ugliest witch i' the north country | B |
| Has trysted me ae day up till her bow'r | E |
| An' monny fair speech she made to me | B |
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| She stroaked my head an' she kembed my hair | F |
| An' she set me down saftly on her knee | B |
| Says 'Gin ye will be my lemman so true | G |
| Sae monny braw things as I woud you gi' ' | - |
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| She show'd me a mantle o' red scarlet | H |
| Wi' gouden flow'rs an' fringes fine | I |
| Says 'Gin ye will be my lemman sae true | G |
| This goodly gift it sal be thine ' | - |
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| 'Awa' awa' ye ugly witch | C |
| Haud far awa' an' lat me be | B |
| I never will be your lemman sae true | G |
| An' I wish I were out o' your company ' | - |
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| She neist brought a sark o' the saftest silk | J |
| Well wrought wi' pearles about the ban' | I |
| Says 'Gin ye will be my ain true love | K |
| This goodly gift you sal comman' ' | - |
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| She show'd me a cup o' the good red gold | L |
| Well set wi' jewls sae fair to see | B |
| Says 'Gin you will be my lemman sae true | G |
| This goodly gift I will you gi' ' | - |
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| 'Awa' awa' ye ugly witch | C |
| Had far awa' and lat me be | B |
| For I woudna ance kiss your ugly mouth | M |
| For a' the gifts that you coud gi' ' | - |
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| She's turn'd her right and roun' about | N |
| An' thrice she blaw on a grass green horn | I |
| An' she sware by the meen and the stars abeen | I |
| That she'd gar me rue the day I was born | I |
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| Then out has she ta'en a silver wand | O |
| An' she's turn'd her three times roun' and roun' | I |
| She's mutter'd sich words till my strength it fail'd | P |
| An' I fell down senceless upon the groun' | I |
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| She's turn'd me into an ugly worm | Q |
| And gard me toddle about the tree | B |
| An' ay on ilka Saturday's night | R |
| My sister Maisry came to me | B |
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| Wi' silver bason and silver kemb | B |
| To kemb my heady upon her knee | B |
| But or I had kiss'd her ugly mouth | M |
| I'd rather 'a' toddled about the tree | B |
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| But as it fell out on last Hallow even | I |
| When the seely court was ridin' by | S |
| The queen lighted down on a gowany bank | T |
| Nae far frae the tree where I wont to lye | S |
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| She took me up in her milk white han' | I |
| An' she's stroak'd me three times o'er her knee | I |
| She chang'd me again to my ain proper shape | U |
| And I nae mair maun toddle about the tree | I |
Frank Sidgwick
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