The Gallant Weaver. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCDDDC EEECFFFCTune The Weavers' March | A |
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Where Cart rins rowin to the sea | B |
By mony a flow'r and spreading tree | B |
There lives a lad the lad for me | B |
He is a gallant weaver | C |
Oh I had wooers aught or nine | D |
They gied me rings and ribbons fine | D |
And I was fear'd my heart would tine | D |
And I gied it to the weaver | C |
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My daddie sign'd my tocher band | E |
To gie the lad that has the land | E |
But to my heart I'll add my hand | E |
And gie it to the weaver | C |
While birds rejoice in leafy bowers | F |
While bees delight in op'ning flowers | F |
While corn grows green in simmer showers | F |
I'll love my gallant weaver | C |
Robert Burns
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