For A' That And A' That Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBBCB DBDBEBEB FBGBHBBB BBBBBBBB BBBBIBGB JBKB| Tho' right be aft put down by strength | A |
| As mony a day we saw that | B |
| The true and leilfu' cause at length | A |
| Shall bear the grie for a' that | B |
| For a' that an a' that | B |
| Guns guillotines and a' that | B |
| The Fleur de lis that lost her right | C |
| Is queen again for a' that | B |
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| We'll twine her in a friendly knot | D |
| With England's rose and a' that | B |
| The Shamrock shall not be forgot | D |
| For Wellington made bra' that | B |
| The Thistle tho' her leaf be rude | E |
| Yet faith we'll no misca' that | B |
| She sheltered in her solitude | E |
| The Fleur de lis for a' that | B |
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| The Austrian Vine the Prussian pine | F |
| For Blucher's sake hurra that | B |
| The Spanish olive too shall join | G |
| And bloom in peace for a' that | B |
| Stout Russia's hemp so surely twin'd | H |
| Around our wreath we'll draw that | B |
| And he that would the cord unbind | B |
| Shall have it for his gra vat | B |
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| Or if to chock sae puir a sot | B |
| Your pity scorn to thraw that | B |
| The Devil's Elbo' be his lot | B |
| Where he may sit and claw that | B |
| In spite of slight in spite of might | B |
| In spite of brags and a' that | B |
| The lads that battled for the right | B |
| Have won the day and a' that | B |
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| There's ae bit spot I had forgot | B |
| They ca'd America that | B |
| A coward plot her rats had got | B |
| Their father's flag to gnaw that | B |
| Now see it fly top gallant high | I |
| Atlantic winds shall blaw that | B |
| And Yankee loun beware your croun | G |
| There's kames in hand to claw that | B |
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| For on the land or on the sea | J |
| Where'er the breezes blaw that | B |
| The British flag shall bear the grie | K |
| And win the day for a' that | B |
Sir Walter Scott
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