Address Tothe Devil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABABAACDADEEEFEFGG GBGBBBBGBGGGGGGGAAAH AHIIJBIBBBBABAGGGDGD BBBABAAAAGAGBBBBBBKL MDKDAAAFAFNNNHNOBBBN BNDDDDDHBBBEBEGGGAGA GGGN GNO thou whatever title suit thee | A |
Auld Hornie Satan Nick or Clootie | A |
Wha in yon cavern grim an' sootie | A |
Clos'd under hatches | B |
Spairges about the brunstane cootie | A |
To scaud poor wretches | B |
Hear me Auld Hangie for a wee | A |
An' let poor damned bodies be | A |
I'm sure sma' pleasure it can gie | C |
E'en to a deil | D |
To skelp an' scaud poor dogs like me | A |
An' hear us squeel | D |
Great is thy pow'r an' great thy fame | E |
Far ken'd an' noted is thy name | E |
An' tho' yon lowin heugh's thy hame | E |
Thou travels far | F |
An' faith thou's neither lag nor lame | E |
Nor blate nor scaur | F |
Whyles ranging like a roarin lion | G |
For prey a' holes an' corners tryin | G |
Whyles on the strong wing' d tempest flyin | G |
Tirlin' the kirks | B |
Whyles in the human bosom pryin | G |
Unseen thou lurks | B |
I've heard my rev'rend graunie say | B |
In lanely glens ye like to stray | B |
Or whare auld ruin'd castles gray | B |
Nod to the moon | G |
Ye fright the nightly wand'rer's way | B |
Wi' eldritch croon | G |
When twilight did my graunie summon | G |
To say her pray'rs douce honest woman | G |
Aft yont the dike she's heard you bummin | G |
Wi' eerie drone | G |
Or rustlin thro' the boortrees comin | G |
Wi' heavy groan | G |
Ae dreary windy winter night | A |
The stars shot down wi' sklentin light | A |
Wi' you mysel I gat a fright | A |
Ayont the lough | H |
Ye like a rash buss stood in sight | A |
Wi' waving sugh | H |
The cudgel in my nieve did shake | I |
Each bristl'd hair stood like a stake | I |
When wi' an eldritch stoor 'Quaick quaick ' | J |
Amang the springs | B |
Awa ye squatter'd like a drake | I |
On whistling wings | B |
Let warlocks grim an' wither'd hags | B |
Tell how wi' you on ragweed nags | B |
They skim the muirs an' dizzy crags | B |
Wi' wicked speed | A |
And in kirk yards renew their leagues | B |
Owre howket dead | A |
Thence countra wives wi' toil an' pain | G |
May plunge an' plunge the kirn in vain | G |
For oh the yellow treasure's taen | G |
By witchin skill | D |
An' dawtet twal pint hawkie's gaen | G |
As yell's the bill | D |
Thence mystic knots mak great abuse | B |
On young guidmen fond keen an' croose | B |
When the best wark lume i' the house | B |
By cantraip wit | A |
Is instant made no worth a louse | B |
Just at the bit | A |
When thowes dissolve the snawy hoord | A |
An' float the jinglin icy boord | A |
Then water kelpie s haunt the foord | A |
By your direction | G |
An' nighted trav'lers are allur'd | A |
To their destruction | G |
And aft your moss travers ing spunkies | B |
Decoy the wight that late an drunk is | B |
The bleezin curst mischievous monkeys | B |
Delude his eyes | B |
Till in some miry slough he sunk is | B |
Ne'er mair to rise | B |
When Masons' mystic word an grip | K |
In storms an' tempests raise you up | L |
Some cock or cat your rage maun stop | M |
Or strange to tell | D |
The youngest brither ye wad whip | K |
Aff straught to hell | D |
Lang syne in Eden'd bonie yard | A |
When youthfu' lovers first were pair'd | A |
An all the soul of love they shar'd | A |
The raptur'd hour | F |
Sweet on the fragrant flow'ry swaird | A |
In shady bow'r | F |
Then you ye auld snick drawin dog | N |
Ye cam to Paradise incog | N |
And play'd on man a cursed brogue | N |
Black be your fa' | H |
An gied the infant warld a shog | N |
Maist ruin'd a' | O |
D'ye mind that day when in a bizz | B |
Wi' reeket duds an reestet gizz | B |
Ye did present your smoutie phiz | B |
Mang better folk | N |
An' sklented on the man of Uz | B |
Your spitefu' joke | N |
An' how ye gat him i' your thrall | D |
An' brak him out o' house and hal' | D |
While scabs and blotches did him gall | D |
Wi' bitter claw | D |
An' lows'd his ill tongued wicked scaul | D |
Was warst ava | H |
But a' your doings to rehearse | B |
Your wily snares an' fechtin fierce | B |
Sin' that day Michael did you pierce | B |
Down to this time | E |
Wad ding a Lallan tongue or Erse | B |
In prose or rhyme | E |
An' now Auld Cloots I ken ye're thinkin | G |
A certain Bardie's rantin drinkin | G |
Some luckless hour will send him linkin | G |
To your black pit | A |
But faith he'll turn a corner jinkin | G |
An' cheat you yet | A |
But fare you weel Auld Nickie ben | G |
O wad ye tak a thought an' men' | G |
Ye aiblins might I dinna ken | G |
Still hae a stake | N |
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I'm wae to think upo' yon den | G |
Ev'n for your sake | N |
Robert Burns
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