For The Meeting Of The Burns Club Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EDED FBFB CFCFGBGB HFHFDFDF FCFCFIFI CBCBCFCF CJCJDKDK| The mountains glitter in the snow | A |
| A thousand leagues asunder | B |
| Yet here amid the banquet's glow | A |
| I hear their voice of thunder | B |
| Each giant's ice bound goblet clinks | C |
| A flowing stream is summoned | D |
| Wachusett to Ben Nevis drinks | C |
| Monadnock to Ben Lomond | D |
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| Though years have clipped the eagle's plume | E |
| That crowned the chieftain's bonnet | D |
| The sun still sees the heather bloom | E |
| The silver mists lie on it | D |
| - | |
| With tartan kilt and philibeg | F |
| What stride was ever bolder | B |
| Than his who showed the naked leg | F |
| Beneath the plaided shoulder | B |
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| The echoes sleep on Cheviot's hills | C |
| That heard the bugles blowing | F |
| When down their sides the crimson rills | C |
| With mingled blood were flowing | F |
| The hunts where gallant hearts were game | G |
| The slashing on the border | B |
| The raid that swooped with sword and flame | G |
| Give place to law and order | B |
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| Not while the rocking steeples reel | H |
| With midnight tocsins ringing | F |
| Not while the crashing war notes peal | H |
| God sets his poets singing | F |
| The bird is silent in the night | D |
| Or shrieks a cry of warning | F |
| While fluttering round the beacon light | D |
| But hear him greet the morning | F |
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| The lark of Scotia's morning sky | F |
| Whose voice may sing his praises | C |
| With Heaven's own sunlight in his eye | F |
| He walked among the daisies | C |
| Till through the cloud of fortune's wrong | F |
| He soared to fields of glory | I |
| But left his land her sweetest song | F |
| And earth her saddest story | I |
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| 'T is not the forts the builder piles | C |
| That chain the earth together | B |
| The wedded crowns the sister isles | C |
| Would laugh at such a tether | B |
| The kindling thought the throbbing words | C |
| That set the pulses beating | F |
| Are stronger than the myriad swords | C |
| Of mighty armies meeting | F |
| - | |
| Thus while within the banquet glows | C |
| Without the wild winds whistle | J |
| We drink a triple health the Rose | C |
| The Shamrock and the Thistle | J |
| Their blended hues shall never fade | D |
| Till War has hushed his cannon | K |
| Close twined as ocean currents braid | D |
| The Thames the Clyde the Shannon | K |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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