Willie O' Winsbury Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C CDCD EFAGC AGC HIJ HIKF ELA MLC NCC COPO QRGR ESC ESCS ACT| The Text is from the Campbell MSS | A |
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| The Story was imagined by Kinloch to possess a quasi historical foundation James V of Scotland who eventually married Madeleine elder daughter of Francis I having been previously betrothed 'by treaty' to Marie de Bourbon daughter of the Duke of Vend 'me returned to Scotland in The theory is neither probable nor plausible | B |
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| WILLIE O' WINSBURY | C |
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| The king he hath been a prisoner | C |
| A prisoner lang in Spain O | D |
| And Willie o' the Winsbury | C |
| Has lain lang wi' his daughter at hame O | D |
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| 'What aileth thee my daughter Janet | E |
| Ye look so pale and wan | F |
| Have ye had any sore sickness | A |
| Or have ye been lying wi' a man | G |
| Or is it for me your father dear | C |
| And biding sae lang in Spain ' | - |
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| 'I have not had any sore sickness | A |
| Nor yet been lying wi' a man | G |
| But it is for you my father dear | C |
| In biding sae lang in Spain ' | - |
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| 'Cast ye off your berry brown gown | H |
| Stand straight upon the stone | I |
| That I may ken ye by yere shape | J |
| Whether ye be a maiden or none ' | - |
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| She's coosten off her berry brown gown | H |
| Stooden straight upo' yon stone | I |
| Her apron was short her haunches were round | K |
| Her face it was pale and wan | F |
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| 'Is it to a man o' might Janet | E |
| Or is it to a man of fame | L |
| Or is it to any of the rank robbers | A |
| That's lately come out o' Spain ' | - |
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| 'It is not to a man of might ' she said | M |
| 'Nor is it to a man of fame | L |
| But it is to William of Winsbury | C |
| I could lye nae langer my lane ' | - |
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| The king's called on his merry men all | N |
| By thirty and by three | C |
| 'Go fetch me William of Winsbury | C |
| For hanged he shall be ' | - |
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| But when he cam' the king before | C |
| He was clad o' the red silk | O |
| His hair was like to threeds o' gold | P |
| And his skin was as white as milk | O |
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| 'It is nae wonder ' said the king | Q |
| 'That my daughter's love ye did win | R |
| Had I been a woman as I am a man | G |
| My bedfellow ye should hae been | R |
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| 'Will ye marry my daughter Janet | E |
| By the truth of thy right hand | S |
| I'll gi'e ye gold I'll gi'e ye money | C |
| And I'll gi'e ye an earldom o' land ' | - |
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| 'Yes I'll marry yere daughter Janet | E |
| By the truth of my right hand | S |
| But I'll hae nane o' yer gold I'll hae nane o' yer money | C |
| Nor I winna hae an earldom o' land | S |
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| 'For I hae eighteen corn mills | A |
| Runs all in water clear | C |
| And there's as much corn in each o' them | T |
| As they can grind in a year ' | - |
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