To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, Recommending A Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDEDFBGAG HHGAAGIJIJBAGA BBKGALGEMENOJP| I HOLD it sir my bounden duty | A |
| To warn you how that Master Tootie | A |
| Alias Laird M'Gaun | B |
| Was here to hire yon lad away | C |
| 'Bout whom ye spak the tither day | C |
| An' wad hae don't aff han' | B |
| But lest he learn the callan tricks | D |
| An' faith I muckle doubt him | E |
| Like scrapin out auld Crummie's nicks | D |
| An' tellin lies about them | F |
| As lieve then I'd have then | B |
| Your clerkship he should sair | G |
| If sae be ye may be | A |
| Not fitted otherwhere | G |
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| Altho' I say't he's gleg enough | H |
| An' 'bout a house that's rude an' rough | H |
| The boy might learn to swear | G |
| But then wi' you he'll be sae taught | A |
| An' get sic fair example straught | A |
| I hae na ony fear | G |
| Ye'll catechise him every quirk | I |
| An' shore him weel wi' hell | J |
| An' gar him follow to the kirk | I |
| Aye when ye gang yoursel | J |
| If ye then maun be then | B |
| Frae hame this comin' Friday | A |
| Then please sir to lea'e sir | G |
| The orders wi' your lady | A |
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| My word of honour I hae gi'en | B |
| In Paisley John's that night at e'en | B |
| To meet the warld's worm | K |
| To try to get the twa to gree | G |
| An' name the airles an' the fee | A |
| In legal mode an' form | L |
| I ken he weel a snick can draw | G |
| When simple bodies let him | E |
| An' if a Devil be at a' | M |
| In faith he's sure to get him | E |
| To phrase you and praise you | N |
| Ye ken your Laureat scorns | O |
| The pray'r still you share still | J |
| Of grateful MINSTREL BURNS | P |
Robert Burns
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