To A Louse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCBC DDDBDB BBBEBE FFFGFH IIIJIJ KIIILI IIIMIM NNNMNMON 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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