Auld Robin Gray Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDCC EECC BBC FFCC GHCC IIC JJCC BBCC| When the sheep are in the fauld and the kye at hame | A |
| And a' the warld to rest are gane | B |
| The waes o' my heart fa' in showers frae my e'e | C |
| While my gudeman lies sound by me | C |
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| Young Jamie lo'ed me weel and sought me for his bride | D |
| But saving a croun he had naething else beside | D |
| To make the croun a pund young Jamie gaed to sea | C |
| And the croun and the pund were baith for me | C |
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| He hadna been awa' a week but only twa | E |
| When my father brak his arm and the cow was stown awa | E |
| My mother she fell sick and my Jamie at the sea | C |
| And auld Robin Gray came a courtin' me | C |
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| My father couldna work and my mother couldna spin | B |
| I toil'd day and night but their bread I couldna win | B |
| Auld Rob maintain'd them baith and wi' tears in his e'e | C |
| Said 'Jennie for their sakes O marry me ' | - |
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| My heart it said nay I look'd for Jamie back | F |
| But the wind it blew high and the ship it was a wrack | F |
| His ship it was a wrack Why didna Jamie dee | C |
| Or why do I live to cry Wae 's me | C |
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| My father urged me sair my mother didna speak | G |
| But she look'd in my face till my heart was like to break | H |
| They gi'ed him my hand tho' my heart was in the sea | C |
| Sae auld Robin Gray he was gudeman to me | C |
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| I hadna been a wife a week but only four | I |
| When mournfu' as I sat on the stane at the door | I |
| I saw my Jamie's wraith for I couldna think it he | C |
| Till he said 'I'm come hame to marry thee ' | - |
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| O sair sair did we greet and muckle did we say | J |
| We took but ae kiss and we tore ourselves away | J |
| I wish that I were dead but I'm no like to dee | C |
| And why was I born to say Wae 's me | C |
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| I gang like a ghaist and I carena to spin | B |
| I daurna think on Jamie for that wad be a sin | B |
| But I'll do my best a gude wife aye to be | C |
| For auld Robin Gray he is kind unto me | C |
Lady Anne Lindsay
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