The Bour-tree Den Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB CDCD EDED FFGG CCHH IJKKEEEE LLKKBBMM KKCC HHNN OOCCBBPP HHQQBBBB CCBB BBCCKKRR RRKK CCKK SSKK CCKK BBKKCLINKUM CLANK in the rain they ride | A |
Down by the braes and the grey sea side | A |
Clinkum clank by stane and cairn | B |
Weary fa' their horse shoe airn | B |
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Loud on the causey saft on the sand | C |
Round they rade by the tail of the land | C |
Round and up by the Bour Tree Den | B |
Weary fa' the red coat men | B |
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Aft hae I gane where they hae rade | C |
And straigled in the gowden brooms | D |
Aft hae I gane a saikless maid | C |
And O sae bonny as the bour tree blooms | D |
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Wi' swords and guns they wanton there | E |
Wi' red red coats and braw braw plumes | D |
But I gaed wi' my gowden hair | E |
And O sae bonny as the bour tree blooms | D |
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I ran a little hempie lass | F |
In the sand and the bent grass | F |
Or took and kilted my small coats | G |
To play in the beached fisher boats | G |
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I waded deep and I ran fast | C |
I was as lean as a lugger's mast | C |
I was as brown as a fisher's creel | H |
And I liked my life unco weel | H |
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They blew a trumpet at the cross | I |
Some forty men both foot and horse | J |
A'body cam to hear and see | K |
And wha among the rest but me | K |
My lips were saut wi' the saut air | E |
My face was brown my feet were bare | E |
The wind had ravelled my tautit hair | E |
And I thought shame to be standing there | E |
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Ae man there in the thick of the throng | L |
Sat in his saddle straight and strong | L |
I looked at him and he at me | K |
And he was a master man to see | K |
And who is this yin and who is yon | B |
That has the bonny lendings on | B |
That sits and looks sae braw and crouse | M |
Mister Frank o' the Big House | M |
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I gaed my lane beside the sea | K |
The wind it blew in bush and tree | K |
The wind blew in bush and bent | C |
Muckle I saw and muckle kent | C |
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Between the beach and the sea hill | H |
I sat my lane and grat my fill | H |
I was sae clarty and hard and dark | N |
And like the kye in the cow park | N |
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There fell a battle far in the north | O |
The evil news gaed back and forth | O |
And back and forth by brae and bent | C |
Hider and hunter cam and went | C |
The hunter clattered horse shoe airn | B |
By causey crest and hill top cairn | B |
The hider in by shag and shench | P |
Crept on his wame and little lench | P |
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The eastland wind blew shrill and snell | H |
The stars arose the gloaming fell | H |
The firelight shone in window and door | Q |
When Mr Frank cam here to shore | Q |
He hirpled up by the links and the lane | B |
And chappit laigh in the back door stane | B |
My faither gaed and up wi' his han' | B |
Is this Mr Frank or a beggarman | B |
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I have mistrysted sair he said | C |
But let me into fire and bed | C |
Let me in for auld lang syne | B |
And give me a dram of the brandy wine | B |
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They hid him in the Bour Tree Den | B |
And I thought it strange to gang my lane | B |
I thought it strange I thought it sweet | C |
To gang there on my naked feet | C |
In the mirk night when the boats were at sea | K |
I passed the burn abune the knee | K |
In the mirk night when the folks were asleep | R |
I had a tryst in the den to keep | R |
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Late and air' when the folks were asleep | R |
I had a tryst a tryst to keep | R |
I had a lad that lippened to me | K |
And bour tree blossom is fair to see | K |
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O' the bour tree leaves I busked his bed | C |
The mune was siller the dawn was red | C |
Was nae man there but him and me | K |
And bour tree blossom is fair to see | K |
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Unco weather hae we been through | S |
The mune glowered and the wind blew | S |
And the rain it rained on him and me | K |
And bour tree blossom is fair to see | K |
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Dwelling his lane but house or hauld | C |
Aft he was wet and aft was cauld | C |
I warmed him wi' my briest and knee | K |
And bour tree blossom is fair to see | K |
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There was nae voice of beast ae man | B |
But the tree soughed and the burn ran | B |
And we heard the ae voice of the sea | K |
Bour tree blossom is fair to see | K |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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