The Father's Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEB FGGGHBEB IJIJGBEB| How can you bid this heart be blithe | A |
| When blithe this heart can never be | B |
| I've lost the jewel from my crown | C |
| Look round our circle and you'll see | B |
| That there is ane out o' the ring | D |
| Who never can forgotten be | B |
| Ay there's a blank at my right hand | E |
| That ne'er can be made up to me | B |
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| 'Tis said as water wears the rock | F |
| That time wears out the deepest line | G |
| It may be true wi' hearts enow | G |
| But never can apply to mine | G |
| For I have learn'd to know and feel | H |
| Though losses should forgotten be | B |
| That still the blank at my right hand | E |
| Can never be made up to me | B |
| - | |
| I blame not Providence's sway | I |
| For I have many joys beside | J |
| And fain would I in grateful way | I |
| Enjoy the same whate'er betide | J |
| A mortal thing should ne'er repine | G |
| But stoop to supreme decree | B |
| Yet oh the blank at my right hand | E |
| Can never be made up to me | B |
James Hogg
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