The Memory Of Burns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJKLELE MNMNOPOP QRQRSTST| How sweetly come the holy psalms | A |
| From saints and martyrs down | B |
| The waving of triumphal palms | C |
| Above the thorny crown | B |
| The choral praise the chanted prayers | D |
| From harps by angels strung | E |
| The hunted Cameron's mountain airs | D |
| The hymns that Luther sung | E |
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| Yet jarring not the heavenly notes | F |
| The sounds of earth are heard | G |
| As through the open minster floats | F |
| The song of breeze and bird | G |
| Not less the wonder of the sky | H |
| That daisies bloom below | I |
| The brook sings on though loud and high | H |
| The cloudy organs blow | I |
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| And if the tender ear be jarred | J |
| That haply hears by turns | K |
| The saintly harp of Olney's bard | J |
| The pastoral pipe of Burns | K |
| No discord mars His perfect plan | L |
| Who gave them both a tongue | E |
| For he who sings the love of man | L |
| The love of God hath sung | E |
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| To day be every fault forgiven | M |
| Of him in whom we joy | N |
| We take with thanks the gold of Heaven | M |
| And leave the earth's alloy | N |
| Be ours his music as of spring | O |
| His sweetness as of flowers | P |
| The songs the bard himself might sing | O |
| In holier ears than ours | P |
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| Sweet airs of love and home the hum | Q |
| Of household melodies | R |
| Come singing as the robins come | Q |
| To sing in door yard trees | R |
| And heart to heart two nations lean | S |
| No rival wreaths to twine | T |
| But blending in eternal green | S |
| The holly and the pine | T |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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