Address To The Wood-lark. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A BBBC A DDDC A EEFG H IIIGTune Where'll bonnie Ann lie | A |
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I | A |
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O stay sweet warbling woodlark stay | B |
Nor quit for me the trembling spray | B |
A hapless lover courts thy lay | B |
Thy soothing fond complaining | C |
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II | A |
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Again again that tender part | D |
That I may catch thy melting art | D |
For surely that would touch her heart | D |
Wha kills me wi' disdaining | C |
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III | A |
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Say was thy little mate unkind | E |
And heard thee as the careless wind | E |
Oh nocht but love and sorrow join'd | F |
Sic notes o' woe could wauken | G |
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IV | H |
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Thou tells o' never ending care | I |
O' speechless grief and dark despair | I |
For pity's sake sweet bird nae mair | I |
Or my poor heart is broken | G |
Robert Burns
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