Halloween Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEA GHGHIJKJA LMNMOMOMA POPOQPQPA MHMHHRHRA SMTMUOVOA OWOXYPYPA ZPZPA2B2C2B2A APAPD2AD2AA MMMME2PC2PA OPOPOMOMA AMAMPMPMA OMOMAMAMA OMOMAAAAA HMHMAMAMA MPMPPAPAA F2OF2OG2C2H2C2A OMOMOAOAA I2AI2AJ2PJ2PA AMAMHE2C2E2A MJ2MMOOOOA HOJ2OK2HSHA OMOMJ2MJ2MA OMOMMMMMA OAOAOPOPA HMJ2MPAPAA MAMAOA

Upon that night when fairies lightA
On Cassilis Downans danceB
Or owre the lays in splendid blazeC
On sprightly coursers pranceB
Or for Colean the route is ta'enD
Beneath the moon's pale beamsE
There up the cove to stray and roveF
Among the rocks and streamsE
To sport that nightA
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Among the bonny winding banksG
Where Doon rins wimplin' clearH
Where Bruce ance ruled the martial ranksG
And shook his Carrick spearH
Some merry friendly country folksI
Together did conveneJ
To burn their nits and pou their stocksK
And haud their HalloweenJ
Fu' blithe that nightA
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The lasses feat and cleanly neatL
Mair braw than when they're fineM
Their faces blithe fu' sweetly kytheN
Hearts leal and warm and kin'M
The lads sae trig wi' wooer babsO
Weel knotted on their gartenM
Some unco blate and some wi' gabsO
Gar lasses' hearts gang startin'M
Whiles fast at nightA
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Then first and foremost through the kailP
Their stocks maun a' be sought anceO
They steek their een and graip and waleP
For muckle anes and straught anesO
Poor hav'rel Will fell aff the driftQ
And wander'd through the bow kailP
And pou't for want o' better shiftQ
A runt was like a sow tailP
Sae bow't that nightA
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Then staught or crooked yird or naneM
They roar and cry a' throu'therH
The very wee things todlin' rinM
Wi' stocks out owre their shoutherH
And gif the custoc's sweet or sourH
Wi' joctelegs they taste themR
Syne cozily aboon the doorH
Wi cannie care they've placed themR
To lie that nightA
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The lasses staw frae 'mang them a'S
To pou their stalks of cornM
But Rab slips out and jinks aboutT
Behint the muckle thornM
He grippet Nelly hard and fastU
Loud skirl'd a' the lassesO
But her tap pickle maist was lostV
When kitlin' in the fause houseO
Wi' him that nightA
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The auld guidwife's well hoordit nitsO
Are round and round dividedW
And monie lads' and lasses' fatesO
Are there that night decidedX
Some kindle coothie side by sideY
And burn thegither trimlyP
Some start awa wi' saucy prideY
And jump out owre the chimlieP
Fu' high that nightA
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Jean slips in twa wi' tentie eeZ
Wha 'twas she wadna tellP
But this is Jock and this is meZ
She says in to herselP
He bleezed owre her and she owre himA2
As they wad never mair partB2
Till fuff he started up the lumC2
And Jean had e'en a sair heartB2
To see't that nightA
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Poor Willie wi' his bow kail runtA
Was brunt wi' primsie MallieP
And Mallie nae doubt took the druntA
To be compared to WillieP
Mall's nit lap out wi' pridefu' flingD2
And her ain fit it brunt itA
While Willie lap and swore by jingD2
'Twas just the way he wantedA
To be that nightA
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Nell had the fause house in her min'M
She pits hersel and Rob inM
In loving bleeze they sweetly joinM
Till white in ase they're sobbin'M
Nell's heart was dancin' at the viewE2
She whisper'd Rob to leuk for'tP
Rob stowlins prie'd her bonny mou'C2
Fu' cozie in the neuk for'tP
Unseen that nightA
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But Merran sat behint their backsO
Her thoughts on Andrew BellP
She lea'es them gashin' at their cracksO
And slips out by herselP
She through the yard the nearest taksO
And to the kiln goes thenM
And darklins graipit for the bauksO
And in the blue clue throws thenM
Right fear't that nightA
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And aye she win't and aye she swatA
I wat she made nae jaukin'M
Till something held within the patA
Guid Lord but she was quakin'M
But whether 'was the deil himselP
Or whether 'twas a bauk en'M
Or whether it was Andrew BellP
She didna wait on talkin'M
To spier that nightA
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Wee Jennie to her grannie saysO
Will ye go wi' me grannieM
I'll eat the apple at the glassO
I gat frae Uncle JohnnieM
She fuff't her pipe wi' sic a luntA
In wrath she was sae vap'rin'M
She notice't na an aizle bruntA
Her braw new worset apronM
Out through that nightA
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Ye little skelpie limmer's faceO
I daur you try sic sportin'M
As seek the foul thief ony placeO
For him to spae your fortuneM
Nae doubt but ye may get a sightA
Great cause ye hae to fear itA
For mony a ane has gotten a frightA
And lived and died deleeretA
On sic a nightA
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Ae hairst afore the SherramoorH
I mind't as weel's yestreenM
I was a gilpey then I'm sureH
I wasna past fifteenM
The simmer had been cauld and watA
And stuff was unco greenM
And aye a rantin' kirn we gatA
And just on HalloweenM
It fell that nightA
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Our stibble rig was Rab M'GraenM
A clever sturdy fallowP
His son gat Eppie Sim wi' weanM
That lived in AchmacallaP
He gat hemp seed I mind it weelP
And he made unco light o'tA
But mony a day was by himselP
He was sae sairly frightedA
That very nightA
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Then up gat fechtin' Jamie FleckF2
And he swore by his conscienceO
That he could saw hemp seed a peckF2
For it was a' but nonsenseO
The auld guidman raught down the pockG2
And out a hanfu' gied himC2
Syne bade him slip frae 'mang the folkH2
Some time when nae ane see'd himC2
And try't that nightA
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He marches through amang the stacksO
Though he was something sturtinM
The graip he for a harrow taksO
And haurls it at his curpinM
And every now and then he saysO
Hemp seed I saw theeA
And her that is to be my lassO
Come after me and draw theeA
As fast this nightA
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He whistled up Lord Lennox' marchI2
To keep his courage cheeryA
Although his hair began to archI2
He was say fley'd and eerieA
Till presently he hears a squeakJ2
And then a grane and gruntleP
He by his shouther gae a keekJ2
And tumbled wi' a wintleP
Out owre that nightA
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He roar'd a horrid murder shoutA
In dreadfu' desperationM
And young and auld came runnin' outA
To hear the sad narrationM
He swore 'twas hilchin Jean M'CrawH
Or crouchie Merran HumphieE2
Till stop she trotted through themC2
And wha was it but grumphieE2
Asteer that nightA
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Meg fain wad to the barn hae gaenM
To win three wechts o' naethingJ2
But for to meet the deil her laneM
She pat but little faith inM
She gies the herd a pickle nitsO
And two red cheekit applesO
To watch while for the barn she setsO
In hopes to see Tam KipplesO
That very nichtA
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She turns the key wi cannie thrawH
And owre the threshold venturesO
But first on Sawnie gies a ca'J2
Syne bauldly in she entersO
A ratton rattled up the wa'K2
And she cried Lord preserve herH
And ran through midden hole and a'S
And pray'd wi' zeal and fervourH
Fu' fast that nightA
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They hoy't out Will wi' sair adviceO
They hecht him some fine braw aneM
It chanced the stack he faddom'd thriceO
Was timmer propt for thrawin'M
He taks a swirlie auld moss oakJ2
For some black grousome carlinM
And loot a winze and drew a strokeJ2
Till skin in blypes cam haurlin'M
Aff's nieves that nightA
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A wanton widow Leezie wasO
As canty as a kittlinM
But och that night amang the shawsO
She got a fearfu' settlin'M
She through the whins and by the cairnM
And owre the hill gaed scrievinM
Whare three lairds' lands met at a burnM
To dip her left sark sleeve inM
Was bent that nightA
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Whyles owre a linn the burnie playsO
As through the glen it wimpl'tA
Whyles round a rocky scaur it straysO
Whyles in a wiel it dimpl'tA
Whyles glitter'd to the nightly raysO
Wi' bickering dancing dazzleP
Whyles cookit underneath the braesO
Below the spreading hazelP
Unseen that nightA
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Among the brackens on the braeH
Between her and the moonM
The deil or else an outler queyJ2
Gat up and gae a croonM
Poor Leezie's heart maist lap the hoolP
Near lav'rock height she jumpitA
but mist a fit and in the poolP
Out owre the lugs she plumpitA
Wi' a plunge that nightA
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In order on the clean hearth staneM
The luggies three are rangedA
And every time great care is ta'en'M
To see them duly changedA
Auld Uncle John wha wedlock joysO
Sin' Mar's year dA

Robert Burns



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