Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAB CCCACA DEFFFF FFFGFG AAAAAA AAAAAA AAAHAH AAAIAI AAAJAJ KKKCHC AAALAL MNMAMA NNNANA AAACAO HHHAHA AAAPAP| O DEATH thou tyrant fell and bloody | A |
| The meikle devil wi' a woodie | A |
| Haurl thee hame to his black smiddie | A |
| O'er hurcheon hides | B |
| And like stock fish come o'er his studdie | A |
| Wi' thy auld sides | B |
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| He's gane he's gane he's frae us torn | C |
| The ae best fellow e'er was born | C |
| Thee Matthew Nature's sel' shall mourn | C |
| By wood and wild | A |
| Where haply Pity strays forlorn | C |
| Frae man exil'd | A |
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| Ye hills near neighbours o' the starns | D |
| That proudly cock your cresting cairns | E |
| Ye cliffs the haunts of sailing earns | F |
| Where Echo slumbers | F |
| Come join ye Nature's sturdiest bairns | F |
| My wailing numbers | F |
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| Mourn ilka grove the cushat kens | F |
| Ye haz'ly shaws and briery dens | F |
| Ye burnies wimplin' down your glens | F |
| Wi' toddlin din | G |
| Or foaming strang wi' hasty stens | F |
| Frae lin to lin | G |
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| Mourn little harebells o'er the lea | A |
| Ye stately foxgloves fair to see | A |
| Ye woodbines hanging bonilie | A |
| In scented bow'rs | A |
| Ye roses on your thorny tree | A |
| The first o' flow'rs | A |
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| At dawn when ev'ry grassy blade | A |
| Droops with a diamond at his head | A |
| At ev'n when beans their fragrance shed | A |
| I' th' rustling gale | A |
| Ye maukins whiddin thro' the glade | A |
| Come join my wail | A |
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| Mourn ye wee songsters o' the wood | A |
| Ye grouse that crap the heather bud | A |
| Ye curlews calling thro' a clud | A |
| Ye whistling plover | H |
| And mourn we whirring paitrick brood | A |
| He's gane for ever | H |
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| Mourn sooty coots and speckled teals | A |
| Ye fisher herons watching eels | A |
| Ye duck and drake wi' airy wheels | A |
| Circling the lake | I |
| Ye bitterns till the quagmire reels | A |
| Rair for his sake | I |
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| Mourn clam'ring craiks at close o' day | A |
| 'Mang fields o' flow'ring clover gay | A |
| And when ye wing your annual way | A |
| Frae our claud shore | J |
| Tell thae far warlds wha lies in clay | A |
| Wham we deplore | J |
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| Ye houlets frae your ivy bow'r | K |
| In some auld tree or eldritch tow'r | K |
| What time the moon wi' silent glow'r | K |
| Sets up her horn | C |
| Wail thro' the dreary midnight hour | H |
| Till waukrife morn | C |
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| O rivers forests hills and plains | A |
| Oft have ye heard my canty strains | A |
| But now what else for me remains | A |
| But tales of woe | L |
| And frae my een the drapping rains | A |
| Maun ever flow | L |
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| Mourn Spring thou darling of the year | M |
| Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear | N |
| Thou Simmer while each corny spear | M |
| Shoots up its head | A |
| Thy gay green flow'ry tresses shear | M |
| For him that's dead | A |
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| Thou Autumn wi' thy yellow hair | N |
| In grief thy sallow mantle tear | N |
| Thou Winter hurling thro' the air | N |
| The roaring blast | A |
| Wide o'er the naked world declare | N |
| The worth we've lost | A |
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| Mourn him thou Sun great source of light | A |
| Mourn Empress of the silent night | A |
| And you ye twinkling starnies bright | A |
| My Matthew mourn | C |
| For through your orbs he's ta'en his flight | A |
| Ne'er to return | O |
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| O Henderson the man the brother | H |
| And art thou gone and gone for ever | H |
| And hast thou crost that unknown river | H |
| Life's dreary bound | A |
| Like thee where shall I find another | H |
| The world around | A |
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| Go to your sculptur'd tombs ye Great | A |
| In a' the tinsel trash o' state | A |
| But by thy honest turf I'll wait | A |
| Thou man of worth | P |
| And weep the ae best fellow's fate | A |
| E'er lay in earth | P |
Robert Burns
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