Auld Rob Morris. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBB A CCDD A EFGH I BBHH I IIJK| I | A |
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| There's auld Rob Morris that wons in yon glen | B |
| He's the king o' guid fellows and wale of auld men | B |
| He has gowd in his coffers he has owsen and kine | B |
| And ae bonnie lassie his darling and mine | B |
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| II | A |
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| She's fresh as the morning the fairest in May | C |
| She's sweet as the ev'ning amang the new hay | C |
| As blythe and as artless as the lamb on the lea | D |
| And dear to my heart as the light to my e'e | D |
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| III | A |
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| But oh she's an heiress auld Robin's a laird | E |
| And my daddie has nought but a cot house and yard | F |
| A wooer like me mamma hope to come speed | G |
| The wounds I must hide that will soon be my dead | H |
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| IV | I |
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| The day comes to me but delight brings me nane | B |
| The night comes to me but my rest it is gane | B |
| I wander my lane like a night troubled ghaist | H |
| And I sigh as my heart it wad burst in my breast | H |
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| V | I |
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| O had she but been of a lower degree | I |
| I then might hae hop'd she wad smil'd upon me | I |
| O how past descriving had then been my bliss | J |
| As now my distraction no words can express | K |
Robert Burns
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