545. Song—Mally's meek Mally's sweet

Read '545. Song—Mally's meek Mally's sweet' by 'Robert Burns' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

545. Song—Mally's meek Mally's sweet by Robert Burns

 Chorus—Mally’s meek, Mally’s sweet,
 Mally’s modest and discreet;
Mally’s rare, Mally’s fair,
 Mally’s every way complete.


AS I was walking up the street,
 A barefit maid I chanc’d to meet;
But O the road was very hard
 For that fair maiden’s tender feet.
 Mally’s meek, &c.


It were mair meet that those fine feet
 Were weel laced up in silken shoon;
An’ ’twere more fit that she should sit
 Within yon chariot gilt aboon,
 Mally’s meek, &c.


Her yellow hair, beyond compare,
 Comes trinklin down her swan-like neck,
And her two eyes, like stars in skies,
 Would keep a sinking ship frae wreck,
 Mally’s meek, &c.

Form: Ballad

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