For this passage I would first do is focus on the language itself. The poem is written in either some type of old english jargon or it is the language that a slave or uneducated person would use. Then I would talk about how the poem starts off talking about "Coming back ower the Border" (line 1). I would go into detail talking about how this uneducated person perhaps has crossed some type of border and may have experienced liberty and wealth. The narrator shows excitement when he writes that "It isna jist the biggins" (line 3). In the second stanza, the author uses rhyme and consonance in order to highlight the emotions that the narrator is experiencing when talking about this new place that the narrator is describing. In the second and third stanzas, the narrator talks about what the "North" (line 9) is "nae" (lines 5 and 9). The last two stanzas have A-B-C-B end rhyme and start off with the words It's/The/The/The. The Author uses these similarities in structure to once again show the level of knowledge which the narrator has been exposed to. In the final stanza, there is a clear reference to phonetic differences that the narrator has experienced such as the "'O'" (line 14), the "'R'" (line 15),and the "'wee this' see thon' Och, gonnae'" (line 13). This poem is about how vocabulary and communication especially the phonetics are one of the things that are most impacting. This person that has clearly been freed from his or her normal life and has been exposed to a new way of seeing the world and the most impacting thing has been the manner of speaking.
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