Song-the Gallant Weaver Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDBEEEBWHERE Cart rins rowin' to the sea | A |
By mony a flower and spreading tree | A |
There lives a lad the lad for me | A |
He is a gallant Weaver | B |
O I had wooers aught or nine | C |
They gied me rings and ribbons fine | C |
And I was fear'd my heart wad tine | C |
And I gied it to the Weaver | B |
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My daddie sign'd my tocher band | D |
To gie the lad that has the land | D |
But to my heart I'll add my hand | D |
And give it to the Weaver | B |
While birds rejoice in leafy bowers | E |
While bees delight in opening flowers | E |
While corn grows green in summer showers | E |
I love my gallant Weaver | B |
Robert Burns
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