Address Of Beelzebub To The President Of The Highland Society. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDBBEEFFGGHHII JKLMFFNNOG PQMMMMNNMMRBNNMMMMBB SSTTUUNNBBNN V NLong life my Lord an' health be yours | A |
Unskaith'd by hunger'd Highland boors | A |
Lord grant mae duddie desperate beggar | B |
Wi' dirk claymore or rusty trigger | B |
May twin auld Scotland o' a life | C |
She likes as lambkins like a knife | C |
Faith you and A s were right | D |
To keep the Highland hounds in sight | D |
I doubt na they wad bid nae better | B |
Than let them ance out owre the water | B |
Then up among the lakes and seas | E |
They'll mak' what rules and laws they please | E |
Some daring Hancock or a Franklin' | F |
May set their Highland bluid a ranklin' | F |
Some Washington again may head them | G |
Or some Montgomery fearless lead them | G |
Till God knows what may be effected | H |
When by such heads and hearts directed | H |
Poor dunghill sons of dirt and mire | I |
May to Patrician rights aspire | I |
Nae sage North now nor sager Sackville | J |
To watch and premier o'er the pack vile | K |
An' whare will ye get Howes and Clintons | L |
To bring them to a right repentance | M |
To cowe the rebel generation | F |
An' save the honour o' the nation | F |
They an' be d d what right hae they | N |
To meat or sleep or light o' day | N |
Far less to riches pow'r or freedom | O |
But what your lordship likes to gie them | G |
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But hear my lord Glengarry hear | P |
Your hand's owre light on them I fear | Q |
Your factors grieves trustees and bailies | M |
I canna' say but they do gaylies | M |
They lay aside a' tender mercies | M |
An' tirl the hallions to the birses | M |
Yet while they're only poind't and herriet | N |
They'll keep their stubborn Highland spirit | N |
But smash them crash them a' to spails | M |
An' rot the dyvors i' the jails | M |
The young dogs swinge them to the labour | R |
Let wark an' hunger mak' them sober | B |
The hizzies if they're aughtlins fawsont | N |
Let them in Drury lane be lesson'd | N |
An' if the wives an' dirty brats | M |
E'en thigger at your doors an' yetts | M |
Flaffan wi' duds an' grey wi' beas' | M |
Frightin' awa your deuks an' geese | M |
Get out a horsewhip or a jowler | B |
The langest thong the fiercest growler | B |
An' gar the tattered gypsies pack | S |
Wi' a' their bastards on their back | S |
Go on my Lord I lang to meet you | T |
An' in my house at hame to greet you | T |
Wi' common lords ye shanna mingle | U |
The benmost neuk beside the ingle | U |
At my right han' assigned your seat | N |
'Tween Herod's hip an Polycrate | N |
Or if you on your station tarrow | B |
Between Almagro and Pizarro | B |
A seat I'm sure ye're weel deservin't | N |
An' till ye come Your humble rervant | N |
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BEELZEBUB | V |
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June st Anno Mundi | N |
Robert Burns
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