Birthday Ode For 31st December, 1787 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBADCDEED FGFGFG CHICJKLLLMNMNOPOBPBF F QQRSSREETUUGNFFTVWXW| AFAR 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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Birthday Ode For 31st December, 1787 is a poem by Robert Burns. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.