How Can I Be Blythe And Glad? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDADA EFGAGA CHIAIA J GAKAKA G LMFAFA| Tune The bonnie lad that's far awa | A |
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| O how can I be blythe and glad | B |
| Or how can I gang brisk and braw | C |
| When the bonnie lad that I lo'e best | D |
| Is o'er the hills and far awa | A |
| When the bonnie lad that I lo'e best | D |
| Is o'er the hills and far awa | A |
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| It's no the frosty winter wind | E |
| It's no the driving drift and snaw | F |
| But ay the tear comes in my e'e | G |
| To think on him that's far awa | A |
| But ay the tear comes in my e'e | G |
| To think on him that's far awa | A |
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| My father pat me frae his door | C |
| My friends they line disown'd me a' | H |
| But I hae ane will tak' my part | I |
| The bonnie lad that's far awa | A |
| But I hae ane will tak' my part | I |
| The bonnie lad that's far awa | A |
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| IV | J |
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| A pair o' gloves he gae to me | G |
| And silken snoods he gae me twa | A |
| And I will wear them for his sake | K |
| The bonnie lad that's far awa | A |
| And I will wear them for his sake | K |
| The bonnie lad that's far awa | A |
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| V | G |
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| O weary Winter soon will pass | L |
| And spring will cleed the birken shaw | M |
| And my young babie will be born | F |
| And he'll be hame that's far awa | A |
| And my young babie will be born | F |
| And he'll be hame that's far awa | A |
Robert Burns
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