Elegy On The Year 1788 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGAA EEGGBB AAAAHHII AAJJEEAAK| FOR lords or kings I dinna mourn | A |
| E'en let them die for that they're born | A |
| But oh prodigious to reflec' | B |
| A Towmont sirs is gane to wreck | B |
| O Eighty eight in thy sma' space | C |
| What dire events hae taken place | C |
| Of what enjoyments thou hast reft us | D |
| In what a pickle thou has left us | D |
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| The Spanish empire's tint a head | E |
| And my auld teethless Bawtie's dead | E |
| The tulyie's teugh 'tween Pitt and Fox | F |
| And 'tween our Maggie's twa wee cocks | F |
| The tane is game a bluidy devil | G |
| But to the hen birds unco civil | G |
| The tither's something dour o' treadin | A |
| But better stuff ne'er claw'd a middin | A |
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| Ye ministers come mount the poupit | E |
| An' cry till ye be hearse an' roupit | E |
| For Eighty eight he wished you weel | G |
| An' gied ye a' baith gear an' meal | G |
| E'en monc a plack and mony a peck | B |
| Ye ken yoursels for little feck | B |
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| Ye bonie lasses dight your e'en | A |
| For some o' you hae tint a frien' | A |
| In Eighty eight ye ken was taen | A |
| What ye'll ne'er hae to gie again | A |
| Observe the very nowt an' sheep | H |
| How dowff an' daviely they creep | H |
| Nay even the yirth itsel' does cry | I |
| For E'nburgh wells are grutten dry | I |
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| O Eighty nine thou's but a bairn | A |
| An' no owre auld I hope to learn | A |
| Thou beardless boy I pray tak care | J |
| Thou now hast got thy Daddy's chair | J |
| Nae handcuff'd mizl'd hap shackl'd Regent | E |
| But like himsel a full free agent | E |
| Be sure ye follow out the plan | A |
| Nae waur than he did honest man | A |
| As muckle better as you can January | K |
Robert Burns
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