Analysis of Fareweel, ye bughts

James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)



1. Fareweel, ye bughts, an' all your ewes,
An' fields whare bIoomin' heather grows;
Nae mair the sportin' lambs I'll see
Since my true love's forsaken me.

CHORUS.
Nae mair I'll hear wi' pleasure sing
The cheerfu' lav'rock in the Spring,
But sad in grief now I maun mourn,
Far, far frae her, o'er Logan-burn.

2. Alas! nae mair we'll meetings keep
At bughts, whan herds ca' in their sheep;
Nae mair amang the threshes green
We'll row, where we hae aften been.
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3. Nae mair for me , ye vi'lets blaw,
Or lilies whiter than the snaw;
Nae mair your pleasures I can bear,
While I am absent frae my dear.
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4. I ken the cause of my hard fate;
In courtin' her I was too blate;
I never kiss'd my lass at a'
But when we met an' gaed awa'.
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5. Oh could my tears again bring back
The days now past, I'd no' be slack
For ev'ry kiss she got before
I wad gie to her now a score.
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6. O fortune I wad you favour me
In some snug corner her to see.
My heart I wad to her reveal,
An' in her arms my pardon seal.
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Scheme xxaa Bccdx eexxB fdxxB ggxxB hhiiB aaffB
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111 1111101 1101111 11110101 10 11111101 011001 11011111 111010101 01111101 11111011 111011 1111111 10 11111111 11010101 11110111 11110111 10 11011111 0101111 11011110 1111111 10 11110111 01111111 1111101 11110101 10 11011111 01110011 11111001 10011101 10
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,032
Words 209
Sentences 17
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 34
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 108
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:06 min read
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James Thomson

James Thomson, who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night, an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment. more…

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