How Lang And Dreary Is The Night. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCECCC FCCC GC CECCC| Tune Cauld Kail in Aberdeen | A |
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| I | - |
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| How lang and dreary is the night | B |
| When I am frae my dearie | C |
| I restless lie frae e'en to morn | D |
| Though I were ne'er sae weary | C |
| For oh her lanely nights are lang | E |
| And oh her dreams are eerie | C |
| And oh her widow'd heart is sair | C |
| That's absent frae her dearie | C |
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| II | - |
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| When I think on the lightsome days | F |
| I spent wi' thee my dearie | C |
| And now what seas between us roar | C |
| How can I be but eerie | C |
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| III | - |
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| How slow ye move ye heavy hours | G |
| The joyless day how dreary | C |
| It was na sae ye glinted by | - |
| When I was wi' my dearie | C |
| For oh her lanely nights are lang | E |
| And oh her dreams are eerie | C |
| And oh her widow'd heart is sair | C |
| That's absent frae her dearie | C |
Robert Burns
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