The Bonny Birdy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C DECE EEFE DGH DEI DEF EJK LMM LHLMLL NLIL NLILL ELMLLL EEFE EEMEO EFLFF EEPE LFLQLR| Text From the Jamieson Brown MS Jamieson in printing this ballad enlarged and rewrote much of it making the burden part of the dialogue throughout | A |
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| The Story is much the same as that of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard but the ballad as a whole is worthy of comparison with the longer English ballad for the sake of its lyrical setting | B |
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| THE BONNY BIRDY | C |
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| There was a knight in a summer's night | D |
| Was riding o'er the lee diddle | E |
| An' there he saw a bonny birdy | C |
| Was singing upon a tree diddle | E |
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| O wow for day diddle | E |
| An' dear gin it were day diddle | E |
| Gin it were day an' gin I were away | F |
| For I ha' na lang time to stay diddle | E |
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| 'Make hast make hast ye gentle knight | D |
| What keeps you here so late | G |
| Gin ye kent what was doing at hame | H |
| I fear you woud look blate ' | - |
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| 'O what needs I toil day an' night | D |
| My fair body to kill | E |
| Whan I hae knights at my comman' | I |
| An' ladys at my will ' | - |
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| 'Ye lee ye lee ye gentle knight | D |
| Sa loud's I hear you lee | E |
| Your lady's a knight in her arms twa | F |
| That she lees far better nor thee ' | - |
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| 'Ye lee ye lee you bonny birdy | E |
| How you lee upo' my sweet | J |
| I will tak' out my bonny bow | K |
| An' in troth I will you sheet ' | - |
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| 'But afore ye hae your bow well bent | L |
| An' a' your arrows yare | M |
| I will flee till another tree | M |
| Whare I can better fare ' | - |
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| 'O whare was you gotten and whare was ye clecked | L |
| My bonny birdy tell me' | H |
| 'O I was clecked in good green wood | L |
| Intill a holly tree | M |
| A gentleman my nest herryed | L |
| An' ga' me to his lady | L |
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| 'Wi' good white bread an' farrow cow milk | N |
| He bade her feed me aft | L |
| An' ga' her a little wee simmer dale wanny | I |
| To ding me sindle and saft | L |
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| 'Wi' good white bread an' farrow cow milk | N |
| I wot she fed me nought | L |
| But wi' a little wee simmer dale wanny | I |
| She dang me sair an' aft | L |
| Gin she had deen as ye her bade | L |
| I wouldna tell how she has wrought ' | - |
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| The knight he rade and the birdy flew | E |
| The live lang simmer's night | L |
| Till he came till his lady's bow'r door | M |
| Then even down he did light | L |
| The birdy sat on the crap of a tree | L |
| An' I wot it sang fu' dight | L |
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| 'O wow for day diddle | E |
| An' dear gin it were day diddle | E |
| Gin it were day and gin I were away | F |
| For I ha' na lang time to stay ' diddle | E |
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| 'What needs ye lang for day diddle | E |
| An' wish that you were away diddle | E |
| Is no your hounds i' my cellar | M |
| Eating white meal and gray ' diddle | E |
| 'O wow for day ' etc | O |
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| 'Is nae you r steed in my stable | E |
| Eating good corn an' hay | F |
| An' is nae your hawk i' my perch tree | L |
| Just perching for his prey | F |
| An' is nae yoursel i' my arms twa | F |
| Then how can ye lang for day ' | - |
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| 'O wow for day diddle | E |
| An' dear gin it were day diddle | E |
| For he that's in bed wi' anither man's wife | P |
| Has never lang time to stay ' diddle | E |
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| Then out the knight has drawn his sword | L |
| An' straiked it o'er a strae | F |
| An' thro' and thro' the fa'se knight's waste | L |
| He gard cauld iron gae | Q |
| An' I hope ilk ane sal sae be serv'd | L |
| That treats ane honest man sae | R |
Frank Sidgwick
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