My Lady's Gown, There's Gairs Upon't. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBCCDD BBBB EFFG H IIJI H BBBBBBBB| Tune Gregg's Pipes | A |
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| I | - |
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| My lady's gown there's gairs upon't | B |
| And gowden flowers sae rare upon't | B |
| But Jenny's jimps and jirkinet | B |
| My lord thinks meikle mair upon't | B |
| My lord a hunting he is gane | C |
| But hounds or hawks wi' him are nane | C |
| By Colin's cottage lies his game | D |
| If Colin's Jenny be at hame | D |
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| My lady's white my lady's red | B |
| And kith and kin o' Cassillis' blude | B |
| But her ten pund lands o' tocher guid | B |
| Were a' the charms his lordship lo'ed | B |
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| III | - |
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| Out o'er yon muir out o'er yon moss | E |
| Whare gor cocks thro' the heather pass | F |
| There wons auld Colin's bonnie lass | F |
| A lily in a wilderness | G |
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| IV | H |
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| Sae sweetly move her genty limbs | I |
| Like music notes o' lovers' hymns | I |
| The diamond dew is her een sae blue | J |
| Where laughing love sae wanton swims | I |
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| V | H |
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| My lady's dink my lady's drest | B |
| The flower and fancy o' the west | B |
| But the lassie that a man lo'es best | B |
| O that's the lass to make him blest | B |
| My lady's gown there's gairs upon't | B |
| And gowden flowers sae rare upon't | B |
| But Jenny's jimps and jirkinet | B |
| My lord thinks meikle mair upon't | B |
Robert Burns
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