Scots Wha Hae Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBBBB CCCDEECD FFFDGGGHScots wha hae wi Wallace bled | A |
Scots wham Bruce has aften led | A |
Welcome to your gory bed | A |
Or to victorie | B |
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 |
Wha for Scotland's King and Law | E |
Freedom's sword will strongly draw | E |
Freeman stand or Freeman fa' | C |
Let him follow me | D |
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By Oppression's woes and pains | F |
By your sons in servile chains | F |
We will drain your dearest veins | F |
But they shall be free | D |
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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