Flodden Field Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GEHE IJKI LEMN OOIO IIPQ IEIE NNNN INNN OIII NIII IRIS SNTN UIVI| King Jamie hath made a vow | A |
| Keepe it well if he may | B |
| That he will be at lovely London | C |
| Upon Saint James his day | B |
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| Upon Saint James his day at noone | D |
| At faire London will I be | E |
| And all the lords in merrie Scotland | F |
| They shall dine there with me | E |
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| March out march out my merry men | G |
| Of hie or low degree | E |
| I'le weare the crowne in London towne | H |
| And that you soon shall be | E |
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| Then bespake good Queene Margaret | I |
| The teares fell from her eye | J |
| Leave off these warres most noble King | K |
| Keepe your fidelitie | I |
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| The water runnes swift and wondrous deepe | L |
| From bottome unto the brimme | E |
| My brother Henry hath men good enough | M |
| England is hard to winne | N |
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| Away quoth he with this silly foole | O |
| In prison fast let her lie | O |
| For she is come of the English bloud | I |
| And for these words she shall dye | O |
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| With that bespake Lord Thomas Howard | I |
| The Queenes chamberlaine that day | I |
| If that you put Queene Margaret to death | P |
| Scotland shall rue it alway | Q |
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| Then in a rage King Jamie did say | I |
| Away with this foolish mome | E |
| He shall be hanged and the other be burned | I |
| So soone as I come home | E |
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| At Flodden Field the Scots came in | N |
| Which made our English men faine | N |
| At Bramstone Greene this battaile was seene | N |
| There was King Jamie slaine | N |
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| His bodie never could be found | I |
| When he was over throwne | N |
| And he that wore faire Scotland's crowne | N |
| That day could not be knowne | N |
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| Then presently the Scot did flie | O |
| Their cannons they left behind | I |
| Their ensignes gay were won all away | I |
| Our souldiers did beate them blinde | I |
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| To tell you plaine twelve thousand were slaine | N |
| That to the fight did stand | I |
| And many prisoners tooke that day | I |
| The best in all Scotland | I |
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| That day made many a fatherlesse child | I |
| And many a widow poore | R |
| And many a Scottish gay lady | I |
| Sate weeping in her bower | S |
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| Jack with a feather was lapt all in leather | S |
| His boastings were all in vaine | N |
| He had such a chance with a new morrice dance | T |
| He never went home againe | N |
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| Now heaven we laude that never more | U |
| Such biding shall come to hand | I |
| Our King by othe is King of both | V |
| England and faire Scotland | I |
George Wharton Edwards
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