Katie Drummond Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF FGFGHH IJIJHH K| My Louis loved me oh so well | A |
| And spiered me for his wife | B |
| He would have haled me from the hell | A |
| That was my bawdy life | B |
| The mother of his bairns to be | C |
| Daftlike he saw in me | C |
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| But I a hizzie of the town | D |
| Just telt him we must part | E |
| Loving too well to drag him down | D |
| I tore him from my heart | E |
| To save the honour of his name | F |
| I went back to my shame | F |
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| They say he soared to starry fame | F |
| Romance flowed from his pen | G |
| A prince of poets he became | F |
| Pride of his fellow men | G |
| My breast was pillow for his head | H |
| Yet naught of his I've read | H |
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| Smoking my cutty pipe the while | I |
| In howths of Leith I lag | J |
| My Louis lies in South Sea isle | I |
| As I a sodden hag | J |
| Live on Oh Love by men enskied | H |
| The day you went I died | H |
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| R L S | K |
Robert Service
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