Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA AACAD AEFED BGHGD| Chorus Mally's meek Mally's sweet | A |
| Mally's modest and discreet | A |
| Mally's rare Mally's fair | B |
| Mally's every way complete | A |
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| AS I was walking up the street | A |
| A barefit maid I chanc'd to meet | A |
| But O the road was very hard | C |
| For that fair maiden's tender feet | A |
| Mally's meek c | D |
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| It were mair meet that those fine feet | A |
| Were weel laced up in silken shoon | E |
| An' 'twere more fit that she should sit | F |
| Within yon chariot gilt aboon | E |
| Mally's meek c | D |
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| Her yellow hair beyond compare | B |
| Comes trinklin down her swan like neck | G |
| And her two eyes like stars in skies | H |
| Would keep a sinking ship frae wreck | G |
| Mally's meek c | D |
Robert Burns
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