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