The Last Wooin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEEE AFAF AGAH EGEG E EA DEIE BJBJ BHBH FCFK LELE FEJE AFAF MKFC KKKK FEFE EFEF HAKA HNCK CBCBO lat me in my bonny lass | A |
It's a lang road ower the hill | B |
And the flauchterin snaw begud to fa' | C |
On the brig ayont the mill | B |
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Here's nae change hoose John Munro | D |
I'll ken that to my cost | E |
Gien ye gar me tak the hill the nicht | E |
Wi' snaw o' the back o' frost | E |
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But tell me lass what's my offence | A |
Weel ken ye At the fair | F |
Ye lichtlied me Ay twasna ance | A |
Ye needna come nae mair | F |
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I lichtlied ye Ay ower the glass | A |
Foul fa' the ill faured mou | G |
'At made the leein word to pass | A |
By rowin 't i' the true | H |
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The trouth is this I dochtna bide | E |
To hear yer bonnie name | G |
Whaur lawless mous war openit wide | E |
Wi' ill tongued scoff and blame | G |
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And what I said was 'Hoot lat sit | E |
She's but a bairn the lass ' | - |
It turnt the spait o' words a bit | E |
And loot yer fair name pass | A |
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Thank ye for naething John Munro | D |
My name it needna hide | E |
It's no a drucken sough wud gar | I |
Me turn my heid aside | E |
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O Elsie lassie be yersel | B |
The snaw stour's driftin thrang | J |
O tak me in the win' 's sae snell | B |
And in an hour I'll gang | J |
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I downa pay ye guid for ill | B |
Ye heedna fause and true | H |
Gang back to Katie at the mill | B |
She loos sic like as you | H |
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He turnt his fit she heardna mair | F |
The lift was like to fa' | C |
And Elsie's hert grew grit and sair | F |
At sicht o' the drivin snaw | K |
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She laid her doon but no to sleep | L |
Her verra hert was cauld | E |
And the sheets war like a frozen heap | L |
O' drift aboot her faul'd | E |
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She rase fu' air the warl lay fair | F |
And still in its windin sheet | E |
At door cheek or at winnock lug | J |
Was never a mark o' feet | E |
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She crap for days aboot the hoose | A |
Dull futtit and hert sair | F |
Aye keekin oot like a hungert moose | A |
But Johnnie was na there | F |
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Lang or the spring begoud to thow | M |
The waesome sick faced snaw | K |
Her hert was saft a' throu and throu | F |
Her pride had ta'en a fa' | C |
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And whan the wreaths war halflins gane | K |
And the sun was blinkin bonnie | K |
Oot ower the hill she wud gang her lane | K |
To speir aboot her Johnnie | K |
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Half ower she cam intil a lair | F |
O' snaw and slush and weet | E |
The Lord hae mercy what's that there | F |
It was Johnnie at her feet | E |
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Aneth the snaw his heid was smorit | E |
But his breist was maistly bare | F |
And twixt his richt ban' and his hert | E |
Lay a lock o' gouden hair | F |
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The warm win' blew the blackcock flew | H |
The lerrick muntit the skies | A |
The burnie ran and a baein began | K |
But Johnnie wudna rise | A |
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The sun was clear the lift was blue | H |
The winter was awa | N |
Up cam the green gerse plentifu | C |
The better for the snaw | K |
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And warm it happit Johnnie's grave | C |
Whaur the ae lock gouden lay | B |
But on Elsie's hingin heid the lave | C |
Was afore the barley gray | B |
George Macdonald
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