Him Wi' The Bag Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BABA ACAC CDCD DEDC CDCD DFDF| Ance was a woman wha's hert was gret | A |
| Her love was sae dumb it was 'maist a grief | B |
| She brak the box it's tellt o' her yet | A |
| The bonny box for her hert's relief | B |
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| Ane was there wha's tale's but brief | B |
| Yet was ower lang the gait he cawed | A |
| He luikit a man and was but a thief | B |
| Michty the gear to grip and hand | A |
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| What guid he cried sic a boxfu to blaud | A |
| Wilfu waste I couth never beir | C |
| It micht hae been sellt for ten poun I wad | A |
| Sellt for ten poun and gien to the puir | C |
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| Savin he was but for love o' the gear | C |
| Carefu he was but a' for himsel | D |
| He carried the bag to his hert sae near | C |
| What fell i' the ane i' the ither fell | D |
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| And the strings o' his hert hingit doun to hell | D |
| They war pu'd sae ticht aboot the mou | E |
| And hence it comes that I hae to tell | D |
| The warst ill tale that ever was true | C |
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| The hert that's greedy maun mischief brew | C |
| And the deils pu'd the strings doon yon'er in hell | D |
| And he sauld or the agein mune was new | C |
| For thirty shillins the Maister himsel | D |
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| Gear i' the hert it's a canker fell | D |
| Brithers latna the siller ben | F |
| Troth gien ye du I warn ye ye'll sell | D |
| The verra Maister or ever ye ken | F |
George Macdonald
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