To A Louse, On Seeing One In A Lady's Bonnet, At Church Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAB CCCACA AAADAD EEEFEG HHHIHI JHHHKH HHHLHL MMMNMN| Ha whare ye gaun ye crowlin ferlie | A |
| Your impudence protects you sairly | A |
| I canna say by ye strunt rarely | A |
| Owre gauze and lace | B |
| Tho' faith I fear ye dine but sparely | A |
| On sic a place | B |
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| Ye ugly creepin' blastit wonner | C |
| Detested shunn'd by saunt an' sinner | C |
| How dare you set your fit upon her | C |
| Sae fine a lady | A |
| Gae somewhere else and seek your dinner | C |
| On some poor body | A |
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| Swith in some beggar's haffet squattle | A |
| There ye may creep and sprawl and sprattle | A |
| Wi' ither kindred jumping cattle | A |
| In shoals and nations | D |
| Whare horn nor bane ne'er daur unsettle | A |
| Your thick plantations | D |
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| Now haud you there ye're out o' sight | E |
| Below the fatt'rells snug an' tight | E |
| Na faith ye yet ye'll no be right | E |
| 'Till ye've got on it | F |
| The vera topmost tow'ring height | E |
| O' Miss's bonnet | G |
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| My sooth right bauld ye set your nose out | H |
| As plump an' gray as onie grozet | H |
| O for some rank mercurial rozet | H |
| Or fell red smeddum | I |
| I'd gie you sic a hearty doze o't | H |
| Wad dross your droddum | I |
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| I wad na been surpris'd to spy | J |
| You on an auld wife's flainen toy | H |
| Or aiblins some bit duddie boy | H |
| On's wyliecoat | H |
| But Miss's fine Lunardi fie | K |
| How daur ye do't | H |
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| O Jenny dinna toss your head | H |
| An' set your beauties a' abread | H |
| Ye little ken what cursed speed | H |
| The blastie's makin' | L |
| Thae winks and finger ends I dread | H |
| Are notice takin' | L |
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| O wad some Power the giftie gie us | M |
| To see oursels as others see us | M |
| It wad frae monie a blunder free us | M |
| An' foolish notion | N |
| What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us | M |
| And ev'n devotion | N |
Robert Burns
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