A Mother's Lament For Her Son's Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFH IJIJFATE gave the word the arrow sped | A |
And pierc'd my darling's heart | B |
And with him all the joys are fled | A |
Life can to me impart | B |
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By cruel hands the sapling drops | C |
In dust dishonour'd laid | D |
So fell the pride of all my hopes | E |
My age's future shade | D |
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The mother linnet in the brake | F |
Bewails her ravish'd young | G |
So I for my lost darling's sake | F |
Lament the live day long | H |
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Death oft I've feared thy fatal blow | I |
Now fond I bare my breast | J |
O do thou kindly lay me low | I |
With him I love at rest | J |
Robert Burns
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