Song-the Dumfries Volunteers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGFG CHDIJHCKCK LGDGMININI DBDBOPOPOP| DOES haughty Gaul invasion threat | A |
| Then let the louns beware Sir | B |
| There's wooden walls upon our seas | C |
| And volunteers on shore Sir | B |
| The Nith shall run to Corsincon | D |
| And Criffel sink in Solway | E |
| Ere we permit a Foreign Foe | F |
| On British ground to rally | G |
| We'll ne'er permit a Foreign Foe | F |
| On British ground to rally | G |
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| O let us not like snarling curs | C |
| In wrangling be divided | H |
| Till slap come in an unco loun | D |
| And wi' a rung decide it | I |
| Be Britain still to Britain true | J |
| Amang ourselves united | H |
| For never but by British hands | C |
| Maun British wrangs be righted | K |
| No never but by British hands | C |
| Shall British wrangs be righted | K |
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| The Kettle o' the Kirk and State | L |
| Perhaps a clout may fail in't | G |
| But deil a foreign tinkler loun | D |
| Shall ever ca'a nail in't | G |
| Our father's blude the Kettle bought | M |
| And wha wad dare to spoil it | I |
| By Heav'ns the sacrilegious dog | N |
| Shall fuel be to boil it | I |
| By Heav'ns the sacrilegious dog | N |
| Shall fuel be to boil it | I |
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| The wretch that would a tyrant own | D |
| And the wretch his true born brother | B |
| Who would set the Mob aboon the Throne | D |
| May they be damn'd together | B |
| Who will not sing God save the King | O |
| Shall hang as high's the steeple | P |
| But while we sing God save the King | O |
| We'll ne'er forget THE PEOPLE | P |
| But while we sing God save the King | O |
| We'll ne'er forget THE PEOPLE | P |
Robert Burns
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