Songs Set To Music: 25. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB FGHG| Since Moggy I mun bid adieu | A |
| How can I help despairing | B |
| Let cruel Fate us still pursue | A |
| There's nought more worth my caring | B |
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| 'Twas she alone could calm my soul | C |
| When racking thoughts did grieve me | D |
| Her eyes my trouble could control | C |
| And into joys deceive me | D |
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| Farewell ye brooks no more along | E |
| Your banks mun I be walking | B |
| No more you'll hear my pipe or song | E |
| Or pretty Moggy's talking | B |
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| But I by death an end will give | F |
| To grief since we mun sever | G |
| For who can after parting live | H |
| Ought to be wretched ever | G |
Matthew Prior
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