A Vision. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF EGHG FFFF GFG IJIJ KFKF| As I stood by yon roofless tower | A |
| Where the wa' flower scents the dewy air | B |
| Where th' howlet mourns in her ivy bower | A |
| And tells the midnight moon her care | B |
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| The winds were laid the air was still | C |
| The Stars they shot along the sky | D |
| The fox was howling on the hill | C |
| And the distant echoing glens reply | D |
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| The stream adown its hazelly path | E |
| Was rushing by the ruin'd wa's | F |
| Hasting to join the sweeping Nith | E |
| Whose distant roaring swells and fa's | F |
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| The cauld blue north was streaming forth | E |
| Her lights wi' hissing eerie din | G |
| Athort the lift they start and shift | H |
| Like fortune's favours tint as win | G |
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| By heedless chance I turn'd mine eyes | F |
| And by the moon beam shook to see | F |
| A stern and stalwart ghaist arise | F |
| Attir'd as minstrels wont to be | F |
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| Had I a statue been o' stane | G |
| His darin' look had daunted me | F |
| And on his bonnet grav'd was plain | G |
| The sacred posy 'Libertie ' | - |
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| And frae his harp sic strains did flow | I |
| Might rous'd the slumb'ring dead to hear | J |
| But oh it was a tale of woe | I |
| As ever met a Briton's ear | J |
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| He sang wi' joy the former day | K |
| He weeping wail'd his latter times | F |
| But what he said it was nae play | K |
| I winna ventur't in my rhymes | F |
Robert Burns
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