To A Haggis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAB CCCDCD DDDEDE FFFGFG DHIJIJ KKKDKD DDDCDC JJJHJHFair fa' your honest sonsie face | A |
Great chieftain o' the pudding race | A |
Aboon them a' ye tak your place | A |
Painch tripe or thairm | B |
Weel are ye wordy o' a grace | A |
As lang's my arm | B |
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The groaning trencher there ye fill | C |
Your hurdies like a distant hill | C |
Your pin wad help to mend a mill | C |
In time o' need | D |
While thro' your pores the dews distil | C |
Like amber bead | D |
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His knife see rustic labour dight | D |
An' cut you up wi' ready slight | D |
Trenching your gushing entrails bright | D |
Like onie ditch | E |
And then O what a glorious sight | D |
Warm reekin rich | E |
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Then horn for horn they stretch an' strive | F |
Deil tak the hindmost on they drive | F |
'Till a' their weel swall'd kytes belyve | F |
Are bent like drums | G |
Then auld Guidman maist like to rive | F |
Bethankit hums | G |
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Is there that o'er his French ragout | D |
Or olio that wad staw a sow | H |
Or fricassee wad mak her spew | I |
Wi' perfect sconner | J |
Looks down wi' sneering scornfu' view | I |
On sic a dinner | J |
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Poor devil see him owre his trash | K |
As feckless as a wither'd rash | K |
His spindle shank a guid whip lash | K |
His nieve a nit | D |
Thro' bloody flood or field to dash | K |
O how unfit | D |
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But mark the rustic haggis fed | D |
The trembling earth resounds his tread | D |
Clap in his walie nieve a blade | D |
He'll mak it whissle | C |
An' legs an' arms an' heads will sned | D |
Like taps o' thrissle | C |
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Ye pow'rs wha mak mankind your care | J |
And dish them out their bill o' fare | J |
Auld Scotland wants nae stinking ware | J |
That jaups in luggies | H |
But if ye wish her gratefu' pray'r | J |
Gie her a Haggis | H |
Robert Burns
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