A Song For Kilts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EAEAFGFG HIHIIBIB JIJIABAB| How grand the human race would be | A |
| If every man would wear a kilt | B |
| A flirt of Tartan finery | A |
| Instead of trousers custom built | B |
| Nay do not think I speak to joke | C |
| You know I'm not that kind of man | D |
| I am convinced that all men folk | C |
| Should wear the costume of a Clan | D |
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| Imagine how it's braw and clean | E |
| As in the wind it flutters free | A |
| And so conducive to hygiene | E |
| In its sublime simplicity | A |
| No fool fly buttons to adjust | F |
| Wi' shanks and maybe buttocks bare | G |
| Oh chiels just take my word on trust | F |
| A bonny kilt's the only wear | G |
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| 'Twill save a lot of siller too | H |
| And here a canny Scotsman speaks | I |
| For one good kilt will wear you through | H |
| A half a dozen pairs of breeks | I |
| And how it's healthy in the breeze | I |
| And how it swings with saucy tilt | B |
| How lassies love athletic knees | I |
| Below the waggle of a kilt | B |
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| True I just wear one in my mind | J |
| Since sent to school by Celtic aunts | I |
| When girls would flip it up behind | J |
| Until I begged for lowland pants | I |
| But now none dare do that to me | A |
| And so I sing with lyric lilt | B |
| How happier the world would be | A |
| If every male would wear a kilt | B |
Robert Service
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