Chloris. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF HIJK L LGDG L GMNM L OGLG| Air My lodging is on the cold ground | A |
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| My Chloris mark how green the groves | B |
| The primrose banks how fair | C |
| The balmy gales awake the flowers | D |
| And wave thy flaxen hair | C |
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| II | - |
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| The lav'rock shuns the palace gay | E |
| And o'er the cottage sings | F |
| For nature smiles as sweet I ween | G |
| To shepherds as to kings | F |
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| Let minstrels sweep the skilfu' string | H |
| In lordly lighted ha' | I |
| The shepherd stops his simple reed | J |
| Blythe in the birken shaw | K |
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| IV | L |
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| The princely revel may survey | L |
| Our rustic dance wi' scorn | G |
| But are their hearts as light as ours | D |
| Beneath the milk white thorn | G |
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| V | L |
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| The shepherd in the flow'ry glen | G |
| In shepherd's phrase will woo | M |
| The courtier tells a finer tale | N |
| But is his heart as true | M |
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| VI | L |
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| These wild wood flowers I've pu'd to deck | O |
| That spotless breast o' thine | G |
| The courtier's gems may witness love | L |
| But 'tis na love like mine | G |
Robert Burns
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