Response To Sentiment Of Scottish Poets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABC DDDED FG DDDHD IJ K LJ M FN OPO Q RQ J SS

In replying to this toast we have no hesitation in saying that Burns stands pre eminentlyA
in the first rank His mind was so sensitive to the beauties of nature that he regrettedB
plowing a daisy under as evinced in the following tender linesC
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' Wee modest crimson tipped flowerD
Thou'st met me in an evil hourD
For I maun crush among the stourD
Thy slender stemE
To spare thee now is past my powerD
Thou bonnie gem '-
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He was well aware that he was but little indebted to education and he finely expresses itF
in the followingG
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'Gie me a spark o' nature's fireD
'Tis a' the learning I desireD
Then though I trudge through dub and mireD
At plow or cartH
My muse though hamely in attireD
May touch the heart '-
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He has encouraged many a poor man who was depressed and in despair with the ill assorted wayI
in which this world's goods are distributed with his grand songJ
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'The rank is but the guinea stampK
The man's the goud for a' that '-
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Thomas Campbell had a warm feeling for depressed nationalities and warmly expressed it on theL
fall of the Polish Patriot KosciuskoJ
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' Hope for a season bade the world farewellM
And freedom shrieked when Kosciusko fell '-
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He had a deep sympathy for Ireland down trodden as it was eighty years ago when he visited itF
and gives vent to his feelings in the touching lament of the Exile of ErinN
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'O where is my cabin stood by the wild woodO
Mother and sister did you weep for its fallP
And where is the sire watched over my childhoodO
And where is my bosom friend dearer than all '-
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Tanahill composed while at the loom His best known sweetest and most tender song isQ
'Jessie the Flower of Dunblane '-
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Hogg the Ettrick shepherd composed while tending his flock One of his finest and mostR
tender pieces isQ
'Meeting a Bonnie Lassie when the Kye comes Hame '-
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Charles McKay the greatest living Scottish Poet is most favourably known by his splendid manly songJ
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' The pen shall supercede the swordS
Right not might shall be the LordS
There's a good time coming wait a little longer '-

James Mcintyre



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