So commences one of the best-known ballads to come from Scotland: the so-termed ‘Border ballads’. In ballads, the rhyme plan is normally abcbThese letters point out where by the rhymes take place at the end of the lines. In ABAB, the primary and 3rd strains rhyme at the top, as do the 2nd and fourth strains. In ABCB, just the 2nd and fourth str