Note 679 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY (continued 2)
Reading edition
A version of “The Cruel Brother” (Child, I. 147), from Forfarshire, has along with the common refrain two lines at the end of the stanza which partly echo the refrain of labour:—
Sing Annet, and Marret, and fair Maisrie,
An’ the dew hangs i’ the wood, gay ladie.