A Poets's Welcome To His Love-begotten Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAA BBBCBC BBBBBB AAAAAA AAADAD AAAEAF AAAGAG AAAAAA| Thou's welcome wean mishanter fa' me | A |
| If thoughts o' thee or yet thy mammie | A |
| Shall ever daunton me or awe me | A |
| My sweet wee lady | A |
| Or if I blush when thou shalt ca' me | A |
| Tyta or daddie | A |
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| Tho' now they ca' me fornicator | B |
| An' tease my name in countra clatter | B |
| The mair they talk I'm kend the better | B |
| E'en let them clash | C |
| An auld wife's tongue's a feckless matter | B |
| To gie ane fash | C |
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| Welcome my bonie sweet wee dochter | B |
| Tho' ye come here a wee unsought for | B |
| And tho' your comin' I hae fought for | B |
| Baith kirk and queir | B |
| Yet by my faith ye're no unwrought for | B |
| That I shall swear | B |
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| Sweet fruit o' monie a merry dint | A |
| My funny toil is no a' tint | A |
| Tho' thou cam to the warl' asklent | A |
| Which fools may scoff at | A |
| In my last plack thy part's be in't | A |
| The better ha'f o't | A |
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| Tho' I should be the waur bestead | A |
| Thou's be as braw and bienly clad | A |
| And thy young years as nicely bred | A |
| Wi' education | D |
| As onie brat o' wedlock's bed | A |
| In a' thy station | D |
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| Wee image o' my bonie Betty | A |
| As fatherly I kiss and daut thee | A |
| As dear and near my heart I set thee | A |
| Wi' as gude will | E |
| As a' the priests had seen me get thee | A |
| That's out o' hell | F |
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| Lord grant that thou may aye inherit | A |
| Thy mither's person grace an' merit | A |
| An' thy poor worthless daddy's spirit | A |
| Without his failins | G |
| 'Twill please me mair to see thee heir it | A |
| Than stockit mailens | G |
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| For if thou be what I wad hae thee | A |
| And tak the counsel I shall gie thee | A |
| I'll never rue my trouble wi' thee | A |
| The cost nor shame o't | A |
| But be a loving father to thee | A |
| And brag the name o't | A |
Robert Burns
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