Song-the Bonie Moor-hen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA AABA CCBBD EEFFD EEGGD| THE HEATHER was blooming the meadows were mawn | A |
| Our lads gaed a hunting ae day at the dawn | A |
| O'er moors and o'er mosses and mony a glen | A |
| At length they discover'd a bonie moor hen | A |
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| Chorus I rede you beware at the hunting young men | A |
| I rede you beware at the hunting young men | A |
| Take some on the wing and some as they spring | B |
| But cannily steal on a bonie moor hen | A |
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| Sweet brushing the dew from the brown heather bells | C |
| Her colours betray'd her on yon mossy fells | C |
| Her plumage outlustr'd the pride o' the spring | B |
| And O as she wanton'd sae gay on the wing | B |
| I rede you c | D |
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| Auld Phoebus himself as he peep'd o'er the hill | E |
| In spite at her plumage he tried his skill | E |
| He levell'd his rays where she bask'd on the brae | F |
| His rays were outshone and but mark'd where she lay | F |
| I rede you c | D |
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| They hunted the valley they hunted the hill | E |
| The best of our lads wi' the best o' their skill | E |
| But still as the fairest she sat in their sight | G |
| Then whirr she was over a mile at a flight | G |
| I rede you c | D |
Robert Burns
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