A Change O' Deils Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCD EFEF AFFF GFHF IJKJ LMLM NONO MPQP| A change o' deils is lichtsome | A |
| Scots Proverb | B |
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| My Grannie spent a merry youth | C |
| She niver wantit for a joe | D |
| An gin she tell't me aye the truth | C |
| Richt little was't she kent na o' | D |
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| An' whiles afore she gae'd awa' | E |
| To bed her doon below the grass | F |
| Says she Guidmen I've kistit twa | E |
| But a change o' deils is lichtsome lass | F |
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| Sae dinna think to maister me | A |
| For Scotland's fu' o' brawlike chiels | F |
| And aiblins ither folk ye'll see | F |
| Are fine an' pleased to change their deils | F |
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| Aye set yer bonnet on yer heid | G |
| An' cock it up upon yer bree | F |
| O' a' yer tricks ye'll hae some need | H |
| Afore ye get the best o' me | F |
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| Sma' wark to fill yer place I'd hae | I |
| I'll seek a sweethe'rt i' the toon | J |
| Or cast my he'rt across the Spey | K |
| An' tak' some pridefu' Hieland loon | J |
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| I ken a man has hoose an' land | L |
| His airm is stoot his een are blue | M |
| A ring o' gowd is on his hand | L |
| An' he's a bonnier man nor you | M |
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| But hoose an' gear an' land an' mair | N |
| He'd gie them a' to get the preen | O |
| That preened the flowers in till my hair | N |
| Beside the may bush yestre'en | O |
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| Jist tak' you tent an' mind forbye | M |
| The braw guid sense my Grannie had | P |
| My Grannie's dochter's bairn am I | Q |
| And a change o' deils is lichtsome lad | P |
Violet Jacob
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