Last May A Braw Wooer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB AAAAA CDCDD DEDEE FGFGG GDGDD HAHAA IJIJJ| Last May a braw wooer cam down the lang glen | A |
| And sair wi' his love he did deave me | B |
| I said there was naething I hated like men | A |
| The deuce gae wi 'm to believe me believe me | B |
| The deuce gae wi 'm to believe me | B |
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| He spak o' the darts in my bonie black een | A |
| And vow'd for my love he was diein | A |
| I said he might die when he liked for Jean | A |
| The Lord forgie me for liein for liein | A |
| The Lord forgie me for liein | A |
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| A weel stocked mailen himsel for the laird | C |
| And marriage aff hand were his proffers | D |
| I never loot on that I ken'd it or car'd | C |
| But thought I might hae waur offers waur offers | D |
| But thought I might hae waur offers | D |
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| But what wad ye think in a fortnight or less | D |
| The deil tak his taste to gae near her | E |
| He up the lang loan to my black cousin Bess | D |
| Guess ye how the jad I could bear her could bear her | E |
| Guess ye how the jad I could bear her | E |
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| But a' the niest week I fretted wi' care | F |
| I gaed to the tryste o' Dalgarnock | G |
| And wha but my fine fickle lover was there | F |
| I glowr'd as I'd seen a warlock a warlock | G |
| I glowr'd as I'd seen a warlock | G |
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| But owre my left shoulder I gae him a blink | G |
| Lest neibors might say I was saucy | D |
| My wooer he caper'd as he'd been in drink | G |
| And vow'd I was his dear lassie dear lassie | D |
| And vow'd I was his dear lassie | D |
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| I spier'd for my cousin fu' couthy and sweet | H |
| Gin she had recover'd her hearin | A |
| And how her new shoon fit her auld shachl't feet | H |
| But heavens how he fell a swearin a swearin | A |
| But heavens how he fell a swearin | A |
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| He begg'd for gudesake I wad be his wife | I |
| Or else I wad kill him wi' sorrow | J |
| So e'en to preserve the poor body in life | I |
| I think I maun wed him to morrow to morrow | J |
| I think I maun wed him to morrow | J |
Robert Burns
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