Fareweel To A'our Scottish Fame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHDED IJIJKDED| Fareweel to a' our Scottish fame | A |
| Fareweel our ancient glory | B |
| Fareweel ev'n to the Scottish name | A |
| Sae famed in martial story | B |
| Now Sark rins over Solway sands | C |
| And Tweed rins to the ocean | D |
| To mark where England's province stands mdash | E |
| Such a parcel of rogues in a nation | D |
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| What force or guile could not subdue | F |
| Thro' many warlike ages | G |
| Is wrought now by a coward few | F |
| For hireling traitor's wages | G |
| The English steel we could disdain | H |
| Secure in valour's station | D |
| But English gold has been our bane mdash | E |
| Such a parcel of rogues in a nation | D |
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| O would or I had seen the day | I |
| That treason thus could sell us | J |
| My auld grey head had lien in clay | I |
| Wi' Bruce and loyal Wallace | J |
| But pith and power till my last hour | K |
| I'll mak this declaration | D |
| We're bought and sold for English gold mdash | E |
| Such a parcel of rogues in a nation | D |
Robert Burns
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