Country Lassie. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFCF BBGBBHBH BGIDDHJH K CHCHHGHG K CIK BJBTune The Country Lass | A |
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I | - |
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In simmer when the hay was mawn | B |
And corn wav'd green in ilka field | C |
While claver blooms white o'er the lea | D |
And roses blaw in ilka bield | C |
Blithe Bessie in the milking shiel | E |
Says I'll be wed come o't what will | F |
Out spak a dame in wrinkled eild | C |
O' guid advisement comes nae ill | F |
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II | - |
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It's ye hae wooers mony ane | B |
And lassie ye're but young ye ken | B |
Then wait a wee and cannie wale | G |
A routhie butt a routhie ben | B |
There's Johnie o' the Buskie glen | B |
Fu' is his burn fu' is his byre | H |
Tak this frae me my bonnie hen | B |
It's plenty beets the luver's fire | H |
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III | - |
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For Johnie o' the Buskie glen | B |
I dinna care a single flie | G |
He lo'es sae weel his craps and kye | I |
He has nae luve to spare for me | D |
But blithe's the blink o' Robie's e'e | D |
And weel I wat he lo'es me dear | H |
Ae blink o' him I wad nae gie | J |
For Buskie glen and a' his gear | H |
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IV | K |
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O thoughtless lassie life's a faught | C |
The canniest gate the strife is sair | H |
But ay fu' han't is fechtin best | C |
An hungry care's an unco care | H |
But some will spend and some will spare | H |
An' wilfu' folk maun hae their will | G |
Syne as ye brew my maiden fair | H |
Keep mind that ye maun drink the yill | G |
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V | K |
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O gear will buy me rigs o' land | C |
And gear will buy me sheep and kye | I |
But the tender heart o' leesome luve | K |
The gowd and siller canna buy | - |
We may be poor Robie and I | - |
Light is the burden luve lays on | B |
Content and luve brings peace and joy | J |
What mair hae queens upon a throne | B |
Robert Burns
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