The Dumfries Volunteers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGH DIEJKIDL MHEHNJOJ G ECECPQPQ| Tune Push about the jorum | A |
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| Does haughty Gaul invasion threat | B |
| Then let the loons beware Sir | C |
| There's wooden walls upon our seas | D |
| And volunteers on shore Sir | C |
| The Nith shall run to Corsincon | E |
| And Criffel sink in Solway | F |
| Ere we permit a foreign foe | G |
| On British ground to rally | H |
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| II | - |
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| O let us not like snarling tykes | D |
| In wrangling be divided | I |
| Till slap come in an unco loon | E |
| And wi' a rung decide it | J |
| Be Britain still to Britain true | K |
| Amang oursels united | I |
| For never but by British hands | D |
| Maun British wrangs be righted | L |
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| III | - |
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| The kettle o' the kirk and state | M |
| Perhaps a clout may fail in't | H |
| But deil a foreign tinkler loon | E |
| Shall ever ca' a nail in't | H |
| Our fathers' bluid the kettle bought | N |
| And wha wad dare to spoil it | J |
| By heaven the sacrilegious dog | O |
| Shall fuel be to boil it | J |
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| IV | G |
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| The wretch that wad a tyrant own | E |
| And the wretch his true born brother | C |
| Who would set the mob aboon the throne | E |
| May they be damned together | C |
| Who will not sing God save the King | P |
| Shall hang as high's the steeple | Q |
| But while we sing God save the King | P |
| We'll ne'er forget the people | Q |
Robert Burns
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