The Braw Wooer by Robert Burns
A lass tells hoo she scorns a wooer, though she thinks weel o' his offer o' a mailen and mairriage. When he gaes tae her cousin Bess, she frets, then meets him at the tryst o' Dalgarnock and taunts him aboot Bess. He begs her tae be his wife, and she thinks she maun wed him the morn.
By Robert Burns · Genre: Ballad, Humor · 529 words
First lines
Tune-"The Lothian Lassie."
Last May, a braw wooer cam doun the lang glen, / And sair wi' his love he did deave me; / I said, there was naething I hated like men- / The deuce gae wi'm, to believe me, believe me; / The deuce gae wi'm to believe me.
Genres
- Ballad — Rhymin stanzas wi' repeated endin lines tell the lass's wooing tale, and a tune is named for singin.
- Humor — The lass owns she was liein aboot no carin, mocks her cousin's feet, and says she maun wed the wooer tae keep him alive.
Tags
wooing · mairriage · jalousie · fickle luve
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Burns
- Date: Date unknown
- Genres: Ballad, Humor
- Length: 529 words
- Structure: 1 section, 9 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Easy (6th Grade)
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