Ower The Hedge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEBE DADF BDCD DDDD BBDB GDDD BGDG A CCDC DHGH ECGC IJDJ GKLK GDDD GEGE| I | A |
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| Bonny lassie rosy lassie | B |
| Ken ye what is care | C |
| Had ye ever a thought lassie | B |
| Made yer hertie sair | C |
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| Johnnie said it Johnnie seekin | D |
| Sicht o' Mally's face | E |
| Keekin i' the hedge o' holly | B |
| For a thinner place | E |
| - | |
| Na said Mally pawky smilin | D |
| Nought o' care ken I | A |
| Gien I meet the gruesome carline | D |
| I s' hand weel ootby | F |
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| Lang be licht o' hert Mally | B |
| As o' fut and ban' | D |
| Lang be ready wi' sic answer | C |
| To ony speirin man | D |
| - | |
| Ay the men 'll aye be speirin | D |
| Troth it's naething new | D |
| There's yersel wi' queston queston | D |
| And there's mair like you | D |
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| Deed ye wadna mock me Mally | B |
| Wi' yer lauchin ee | B |
| Gien ye saw the thing aye muvin | D |
| I' the hert o' me | B |
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| Troth I'm no sae pryin laddie | G |
| Yon's no my concern | D |
| Jist as sune I wud gang speirin | D |
| What's intil yon cairn | D |
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| Still and on there's ae thing Mally | B |
| Yont yer help my doo | G |
| That's to haud my hert frae lo'in | D |
| At the hert o' you | G |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Johnnie turned and left her | C |
| Listit for the war | C |
| In a year cam limpin | D |
| Hame wi' mony a scar | C |
| - | |
| Wha was that was sittin | D |
| On the brae sae still | H |
| Worn and wan and altert | G |
| Could it be hersel | H |
| - | |
| Cled in black her eelids | E |
| Reid wi' greitin sair | C |
| Was she wife and widow | G |
| In a towmond bare | C |
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| Mally's hert played wallop | I |
| Kenned him or he spak | J |
| Are ye no deid Johnnie | D |
| Is't yersel come back | J |
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| Are ye wife or widow | G |
| Tell me in a breath | K |
| Lanely life is fearsome | L |
| Waur nor ony death | K |
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| Wha cud be a widow | G |
| Wife was never nane | D |
| Noo gien ye will hae me | D |
| Noo I will be ane | D |
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| Crutch awa he flang it | G |
| Clean forgot his hairms | E |
| Cudna stan' withoot it | G |
| Fell in Mally's airms | E |
George Macdonald
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