Epistle To John Maxwell, Esq., Of Terraughty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAB CCCDCE FFFGHH IIIIII IIIIIIHEALTH to the Maxwell's veteran Chief | A |
Health aye unsour'd by care or grief | A |
Inspir'd I turn'd Fate's sibyl leaf | A |
This natal morn | B |
I see thy life is stuff o' prief | A |
Scarce quite half worn | B |
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This day thou metes threescore eleven | C |
And I can tell that bounteous Heaven | C |
The second sight ye ken is given | C |
To ilka Poet | D |
On thee a tack o' seven times seven | C |
Will yet bestow it | E |
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If envious buckies view wi' sorrow | F |
Thy lengthen'd days on this blest morrow | F |
May Desolation's lang teeth'd harrow | F |
Nine miles an hour | G |
Rake them like Sodom and Gomorrah | H |
In brunstane stour | H |
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But for thy friends and they are mony | I |
Baith honest men and lassies bonie | I |
May couthie Fortune kind and cannie | I |
In social glee | I |
Wi' mornings blythe and e'enings funny | I |
Bless them and thee | I |
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Fareweel auld birkie Lord be near ye | I |
And then the deil he daurna steer ye | I |
Your friends aye love your faes aye fear ye | I |
For me shame fa' me | I |
If neist my heart I dinna wear ye | I |
While Burns they ca' me | I |
Robert Burns
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