Robert Burns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDCEEFGGFHIIJKK JLLLJ| He felt scant need | A |
| Of church or creed | A |
| He took small share | B |
| In saintly prayer | B |
| His eyes found food for his love | C |
| He could pity poor devils condemned to hell | D |
| But sadly neglected endeavours to dwell | D |
| With the angels in luck above | C |
| To save one's precious peculiar soul | E |
| He never could understand is the whole | E |
| Of a mortal's business in life | F |
| While all about him his human kin | G |
| With loving and hating and virtue and sin | G |
| Reel overmatched in the strife | F |
| The heavens for the heavens | H |
| and the earth for the earth | I |
| I am a Man I'll be true to my birth | I |
| Man in my joys in my pains | J |
| So fearless stalwart erect and free | K |
| He gave to his fellows right royally | K |
| His strength his heart his brains | J |
| For proud and fiery and swift and bold | L |
| Wine of life from heart of gold | L |
| The blood of his heathen manhood rolled | L |
| Full billowed through his veins | J |
James Thomson - (bysshe Vanolis)
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