Highland Mary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBDB FGHGIBJB KBLBMBDB NBOBPBBB| Ye banks and braes and streams around | A |
| The castle o' Montgomery | B |
| Green be your woods and fair your flowers | C |
| Your waters never drumlie | D |
| There simmer first unfauld her robes | E |
| And there the langest tarry | B |
| For there I took the last fareweel | D |
| O' my sweet Highland Mary | B |
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| How sweetly bloomed the gay green birk | F |
| How rich the hawthorn's blossom | G |
| As underneath their fragrant shade | H |
| I clasped her to my bosom | G |
| The golden hours on angel wings | I |
| Flew o'er me and my dearie | B |
| For dear to me as light and life | J |
| Was my sweet Highland Mary | B |
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| Wi' mony a vow and locked embrace | K |
| Our parting was fu' tender | B |
| And pledging aft to meet again | L |
| We tore oursels asunder | B |
| But O fell Death's untimely frost | M |
| That nipt my flower sae early | B |
| Now green's the sod and cauld's the clay | D |
| That wraps my Highland Mary | B |
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| O pale pale now those rosy lips | N |
| I aft hae kissed sae fondly | B |
| And closed for aye the sparkling glance | O |
| That dwelt on me sae kindly | B |
| And mouldering now in silent dust | P |
| That heart that lo'ed me dearly | B |
| But still within my bosom's core | B |
| Shall live my Highland Mary | B |
Robert Burns
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