Bannockburn. Robert Bruce's Address To His Army. (second Version.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBC A CCCC A DDDE D FFDE E GGGE D HHHD| I | A |
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| Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled | B |
| Scots wham Bruce has aften led | B |
| Welcome to your gory bed | B |
| Or to glorious victorie | C |
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| II | A |
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| Now's the day and now's the hour | C |
| See the front o' battle lour | C |
| See approach proud Edward's power | C |
| Edward chains and slaverie | C |
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| III | A |
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| Wha will be a traitor knave | D |
| Wha can fill a coward's grave | D |
| Wha sae base as be a slave | D |
| Traitor coward turn and flee | E |
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| IV | D |
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| Wha for Scotland's king and law | F |
| Freedom's sword will strongly draw | F |
| Freeman stand or freeman fa' | D |
| Caledonian on wi' me | E |
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| V | E |
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| By oppression's woes and pains | G |
| By our sons in servile chains | G |
| We will drain our dearest veins | G |
| But they shall be shall be free | E |
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| VI | D |
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| Lay the proud usurpers low | H |
| Tyrants fall in every foe | H |
| Liberty's in every blow | H |
| Forward let us do or die | D |
Robert Burns
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