Highland Hospitality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKDKD LDLDMNMN DODODDDD| Unto his housemaid spoke the Laird | A |
| Tonight the Bishop is our guest | B |
| The spare room must be warmed and aired | A |
| To please him we will do our best | B |
| A worthy haggis you must make | C |
| And serve a bowl of barley bree | D |
| We must be hearty for the sake | C |
| Of Highland Hospitality | D |
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| The feast was set the candles lit | E |
| The Bishop came with modest mien | F |
| And one surmised was glad to sit | E |
| And sup in this ancestral scene | F |
| A noble haggis graced the board | G |
| The Laird proposed a toast or two | H |
| And ever and anon he poured | G |
| His guest a glass of Mountain Dew | H |
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| Then to his maid the Laird gave tongue | I |
| My sonsie Jean my friend is old | J |
| Comparatively you are young | I |
| And not so sensitive to cold | J |
| Poor chiel His blood austerely beats | K |
| Though it be sped by barley bree | D |
| Slip half an hour between the sheets | K |
| Brave lass and warm his bed a wee | D |
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| Said she I'll do the best I can | L |
| So that his couch may cosy be | D |
| And as a human warming pan | L |
| Prove Highland Hospitality | D |
| So hearing sounds of mild carouse | M |
| As in the down she pillowed deep | N |
| In half an hour I will arouse | M |
| She vowed then soundly went to sleep | N |
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| So when the morn was amber orbed | D |
| The Bishop from a dream awoke | O |
| And as his parritch he absorbed | D |
| Unto his host he slyly spoke | O |
| Your haggis Laird was nobly bred | D |
| And braw your brew of barley bree | D |
| But oh your thought to warm the bed | D |
| That's Highland Hospitality | D |
Robert Service
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