Bess And Her Spinning-wheel. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEFBB GGHHIIBB BBJJKKBB L LMMJJBB| Tune The sweet lass that lo'es me | A |
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| O leeze me on my spinning wheel | B |
| O leeze me on the rock and reel | B |
| Frae tap to tae that cleeds me bien | C |
| And haps me fiel and warm at e'en | D |
| I'll set me down and sing and spin | E |
| While laigh descends the simmer sun | F |
| Blest wi' content and milk and meal | B |
| O leeze me on my spinning wheel | B |
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| II | - |
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| On ilka hand the burnies trot | G |
| And meet below my theekit cot | G |
| The scented birk and hawthorn white | H |
| Across the pool their arms unite | H |
| Alike to screen the birdie's nest | I |
| And little fishes' caller rest | I |
| The sun blinks kindly in the biel' | B |
| Where blithe I turn my spinning wheel | B |
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| III | - |
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| On lofty aiks the cushats wail | B |
| And Echo cons the doolfu' tale | B |
| The lintwhites in the hazel braes | J |
| Delighted rival ither's lays | J |
| The craik amang the clover hay | K |
| The paitrick whirrin o'er the ley | K |
| The swallow jinkin round my shiel | B |
| Amuse me at my spinning wheel | B |
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| IV | L |
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| Wi' sma' to sell and less to buy | - |
| Aboon distress below envy | L |
| O wha wad leave this humble state | M |
| For a' the pride of a' the great | M |
| Amid their flaring idle toys | J |
| Amid their cumbrous dinsome joys | J |
| Can they the peace and pleasure feel | B |
| Of Bessy at her spinning wheel | B |
Robert Burns
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