Robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB BBBB CCCD EECD FFFD GGGH| Scots what hae wi' Wallace bled | A |
| Scots wham Bruce has aften led | A |
| Welcome to your gory bed | A |
| Or to victorie | B |
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| Now's the day and now's the hour | B |
| See the front o' battle lour | B |
| See approach proud Edward's power | B |
| Chains and slaverie | B |
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| Wha will be a traitor knave | C |
| Wha can fill a coward's grave | C |
| Wha sae base as be a slave | C |
| Let him turn and flee | D |
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| Wha for Scotland's King and Law | E |
| Freedom's sword will strongly draw | E |
| Free man stand or Free man fa' | C |
| Let him on wi' me | D |
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| By Oppression's woes and pains | F |
| By your sons in servile chains | F |
| We sill drain our dearest veins | F |
| But they shall be free | D |
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| Lay the proud Usurpers low | G |
| Tyrants fall in every foe | G |
| Liberty's in every blow | G |
| Let us do or die | H |
Robert Burns
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