Address To Edinburgh. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCDCD A ECECCFCG A HIHIIJIJ K LALMANAN K COCOOPQP A CRCRSTRT A CQCQQUQU A BCBCCDCD| I | A |
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| Edina Scotia's darling seat | B |
| All hail thy palaces and tow'rs | C |
| Where once beneath a monarch's feet | B |
| Sat Legislation's sov'reign pow'rs | C |
| From marking wildly scatter'd flow'rs | C |
| As on the banks of Ayr I stray'd | D |
| And singing lone the ling'ring hours | C |
| I shelter in thy honour'd shade | D |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Here wealth still swells the golden tide | E |
| As busy Trade his labour plies | C |
| There Architecture's noble pride | E |
| Bids elegance and splendour rise | C |
| Here Justice from her native skies | C |
| High wields her balance and her rod | F |
| There Learning with his eagle eyes | C |
| Seeks Science in her coy abode | G |
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| III | A |
| - | |
| Thy sons Edina social kind | H |
| With open arms the stranger hail | I |
| Their views enlarg'd their liberal mind | H |
| Above the narrow rural vale | I |
| Attentive still to sorrow's wail | I |
| Or modest merit's silent claim | J |
| And never may their sources fail | I |
| And never envy blot their name | J |
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| IV | K |
| - | |
| Thy daughters bright thy walks adorn | L |
| Gay as the gilded summer sky | A |
| Sweet as the dewy milk white thorn | L |
| Dear as the raptur'd thrill of joy | M |
| Fair Burnet strikes th' adoring eye | A |
| Heav'n's beauties on my fancy shine | N |
| I see the Sire of Love on high | A |
| And own his work indeed divine | N |
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| V | K |
| - | |
| There watching high the least alarms | C |
| Thy rough rude fortress gleams afar | O |
| Like some bold vet'ran gray in arms | C |
| And mark'd with many a seamy scar | O |
| The pond'rous wall and massy bar | O |
| Grim rising o'er the rugged rock | P |
| Have oft withstood assailing war | Q |
| And oft repell'd th' invader's shock | P |
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| VI | A |
| - | |
| With awe struck thought and pitying tears | C |
| I view that noble stately dome | R |
| Where Scotia's kings of other years | C |
| Fam'd heroes had their royal home | R |
| Alas how chang'd the times to come | S |
| Their royal name low in the dust | T |
| Their hapless race wild wand'ring roam | R |
| Tho' rigid law cries out 'twas just | T |
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| VII | A |
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| Wild beats my heart to trace your steps | C |
| Whose ancestors in days of yore | Q |
| Thro' hostile ranks and ruin'd gaps | C |
| Old Scotia's bloody lion bore | Q |
| Ev'n I who sing in rustic lore | Q |
| Haply my sires have left their shed | U |
| And fac'd grim danger's loudest roar | Q |
| Bold following where your fathers led | U |
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| VIII | A |
| - | |
| Edina Scotia's darling seat | B |
| All hail thy palaces and tow'rs | C |
| Where once beneath a monarch's feet | B |
| Sat Legislation's sov'reign pow'rs | C |
| From marking wildly scatter'd flow'rs | C |
| As on the hanks of Ayr I stray'd | D |
| And singing lone the ling'ring hours | C |
| I shelter in thy honour'd shade | D |
Robert Burns
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