The Wee Wee Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C C CDCE FGCB CBHB I J HCKC LCMC HNHO HAGD| The Text is that of Herd's MS and his Scots Songs Other versions vary very slightly and this is the oldest of them | A |
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| There is a fourteenth century MS in the Cotton collection containing a poem not unlike The Wee Wee Man but there is no justification in deriving the ballad from the poem which may be found in Ritson's Ancient Songs i p | B |
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| Scott incorporates the story with The Young Tamlane | C |
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| THE WEE WEE MAN | C |
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| As I was wa'king all alone | C |
| Between a water and a wa' | D |
| And there I spy'd a wee wee man | C |
| And he was the least that ere I saw | E |
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| His legs were scarce a shathmont's length | F |
| And thick and thimber was his thigh | G |
| Between his brows there was a span | C |
| And between his shoulders there was three | B |
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| He took up a meikle stane | C |
| And he flang 't as far as I could see | B |
| Though I had been a Wallace wight | H |
| I couldna liften't to my knee | B |
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| 'O wee wee man but thou be strang | I |
| O tell me where thy dwelling be ' | - |
| 'My dwelling's down at yon bonny bower | J |
| O will you go with me and see ' | - |
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| On we lap and awa' we rade | H |
| Till we came to yon bonny green | C |
| We lighted down for to bait our horse | K |
| And out there came a lady fine | C |
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| Four and twenty at her back | L |
| And they were a' clad out in green | C |
| Though the King of Scotland had been there | M |
| The warst o' them might hae been his queen | C |
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| On we lap and awa' we rade | H |
| Till we came to yon bonny ha' | N |
| Whare the roof was o' the beaten gould | H |
| And the floor was o' the cristal a' | O |
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| When we came to the stair foot | H |
| Ladies were dancing jimp and sma' | A |
| But in the twinkling of an eye | G |
| My wee wee man was clean awa' | D |
Frank Sidgwick
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