To A Louse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCBC DDDBDB BBBEBE FFFGFH IIIJIJ KIIILI IIIMIM NNNMNM| ON SEEING ONE ON A LADY'S BONNET AT CHURCH | A |
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| Ha whare ye gaun ye crowlin ferlie | B |
| Your impudence protects you sairly | B |
| I canna say but ye strunt rarely | B |
| Owre gauze and lace | C |
| Tho' faith I fear ye dine but sparely | B |
| On sic a place | C |
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| Ye ugly creepin blastit wonner | D |
| Detested shunned by saunt an' sinner | D |
| How daur ye set your fit upon her | D |
| Sae fine a lady | B |
| Gae somewhere else and seek your dinner | D |
| On some poor body | B |
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| Swith in some beggar's haffet squattle | B |
| There ye may creep and sprawl and sprattle | B |
| Wi' ither kindred jumpin cattle | B |
| In shoals and nations | E |
| Whare horn or bane ne'er daur unsettle | B |
| Your thick plantations | E |
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| Now haud ye there ye're out o' sight | F |
| Below the fatt'rels snug an' tight | F |
| Na faith ye yet ye'll no be right | F |
| Till ye've got on it | G |
| The vera tapmost towering height | F |
| O' Miss's bonnet | H |
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| My sooth right bauld ye set your nose out | I |
| As plump an' grey as onie grozet | I |
| O for some rank mercurial rozet | I |
| Or fell red smeddum | J |
| I'd gie ye sic a hearty dose o't | I |
| Wad dress your droddum | J |
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| I wad na been surprised to spy | K |
| You on an auld wife's flainen toy | I |
| Or aiblins some bit duddie boy | I |
| On's wyliecoat | I |
| But Miss's fine Lunardi fie | L |
| How daur ye do't | I |
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| O Jenny dinna toss your head | I |
| An' set your beauties a' abread | I |
| Ye little ken what cursed speed | I |
| The blastie's makin | M |
| Thae winks and finger ends I dread | I |
| Are notice takin | M |
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| O wad some Power the giftie gie us | N |
| To see oursels as others see us | N |
| It wad frae monie a blunder free us | N |
| An' foolish notion | M |
| What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us | N |
| And ev'n Devotion | M |
Robert Burns
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To A Louse is a poem by Robert Burns. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.