Ah, Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBDB EFEE| Ah woe is me my mother dear | A |
| A man of strife ye've born me | B |
| For sair contention I maun bear | C |
| They hate revile and scorn me | B |
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| I ne'er could lend on bill or band | D |
| That five per cent might blest me | B |
| And borrowing on the tither hand | D |
| The deil a ane wad trust me | B |
| - | |
| Yet I a coin denied wight | E |
| By Fortune quite discarded | F |
| Ye see how I am day and night | E |
| By lad and lass blackguarded | E |
Robert Burns
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