Elegy On Miss Burnet, Of Monboddo. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGF GHGH IJIJ KGKG LMLM| Life ne'er exulted in so rich a prize | A |
| As Burnet lovely from her native skies | A |
| Nor envious death so triumph'd in a blow | B |
| As that which laid th' accomplish'd Burnet low | B |
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| Thy form and mind sweet maid can I forget | C |
| In richest ore the brightest jewel set | C |
| In thee high Heaven above was truest shown | D |
| As by his noblest work the Godhead best is known | D |
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| In vain ye flaunt in summer's pride ye groves | E |
| Thou crystal streamlet with thy flowery shore | F |
| Ye woodland choir that chant your idle loves | G |
| Ye cease to charm Eliza is no more | F |
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| Ye heathy wastes immix'd with reedy fens | G |
| Ye mossy streams with sedge and rushes stor'd | H |
| Ye rugged cliffs o'erhanging dreary glens | G |
| To you I fly ye with my soul accord | H |
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| Princes whose cumb'rous pride was all their worth | I |
| Shall venal lays their pompous exit hail | J |
| And thou sweet excellence forsake our earth | I |
| And not a muse in honest grief bewail | J |
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| We saw thee shine in youth and beauty's pride | K |
| And virtue's light that beams beyond the spheres | G |
| But like the sun eclips'd at morning tide | K |
| Thou left'st us darkling in a world of tears | G |
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| The parent's heart that nestled fond in thee | L |
| That heart how sunk a prey to grief and care | M |
| So leck'd the woodbine sweet yon aged tree | L |
| So from it ravish'd leaves it bleak and bare | M |
Robert Burns
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