Lament Of The Scotch-irish Exile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBBC DEDEFFE DEGEHHE ADADBBD| Oh I want to win me hame | A |
| To my ain countrie | B |
| The land frae whence I came | A |
| Far away across the sea | C |
| Bit I canna find it there on the atlas anywhere | B |
| And I greet and wonder sair | B |
| Where the deil it can be | C |
| - | |
| I hae never met a man | D |
| In a' the warld wide | E |
| Who has trod my native lan' | D |
| Or its distant shores espied | E |
| But they tell me there's a place where my hypothetic race | F |
| Its dim origin can trace | F |
| Tipperary on the Clyde | E |
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| But anither answers Nae | D |
| Ye are varra far frae richt | E |
| Glasgow town in Dublin Bay | G |
| Is the spot we saw the licht | E |
| But I dinna find the maps bearing out these pawkie chaps | H |
| And I sometimes think perhaps | H |
| It has vanished out o' sight | E |
| - | |
| Oh I fain wad win me hame | A |
| To that undiscovered lan' | D |
| That has neither place nor name | A |
| Where the Scoto Irishman | D |
| May behold the castles fair by his fathers builded there | B |
| Many many ages ere | B |
| Ancient history began | D |
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