Birthday Ode For 31st December, 1787 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBADCDEED FGFGFG CHICJKLLLMNMNOPOBPBF F QQRSSREETUUGNFFTVWXWAFAR the illustrious Exile roams | A |
Whom kingdoms on this day should hail | B |
An inmate in the casual shed | C |
On transient pity's bounty fed | C |
Haunted by busy memory's bitter tale | B |
Beasts of the forest have their savage homes | A |
But He who should imperial purple wear | D |
Owns not the lap of earth where rests his royal head | C |
His wretched refuge dark despair | D |
While ravening wrongs and woes pursue | E |
And distant far the faithful few | E |
Who would his sorrows share | D |
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False flatterer Hope away | F |
Nor think to lure us as in days of yore | G |
We solemnize this sorrowing natal day | F |
To prove our loyal truth we can no more | G |
And owning Heaven's mysterious sway | F |
Submissive low adore | G |
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Ye honored mighty Dead | C |
Who nobly perished in the glorious cause | H |
Your King your Country and her laws | I |
From great DUNDEE who smiling Victory led | C |
And fell a Martyr in her arms | J |
What breast of northern ice but warms | K |
To bold BALMERINO'S undying name | L |
Whose soul of fire lighted at Heaven's high flame | L |
Deserves the proudest wreath departed heroes claim | L |
Nor unrevenged your fate shall lie | M |
It only lags the fatal hour | N |
Your blood shall with incessant cry | M |
Awake at last th' unsparing Power | N |
As from the cliff with thundering course | O |
The snowy ruin smokes along | P |
With doubling speed and gathering force | O |
Till deep it crushing whelms the cottage in the vale | B |
So Vengeance' arm ensanguin'd strong | P |
Shall with resistless might assail | B |
Usurping Brunswick's pride shall lay | F |
And STEWART'S wrongs and yours with tenfold weight repay | F |
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PERDITION baleful child of night | Q |
Rise and revenge the injured right | Q |
Of STEWART'S royal race | R |
Lead on the unmuzzled hounds of hell | S |
Till all the frighted echoes tell | S |
The blood notes of the chase | R |
Full on the quarry point their view | E |
Full on the base usurping crew | E |
The tools of faction and the nation's curse | T |
Hark how the cry grows on the wind | U |
They leave the lagging gale behind | U |
Their savage fury pitiless they pour | G |
With murdering eyes already they devour | N |
See Brunswick spent a wretched prey | F |
His life one poor despairing day | F |
Where each avenging hour still ushers in a worse | T |
Such havock howling all abroad | V |
Their utter ruin bring | W |
The base apostates to their God | X |
Or rebels to their King | W |
Robert Burns
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