Impromptu On Mrs. Riddell's Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEE FFGGHHHH| OLD Winter with his frosty beard | A |
| Thus once to Jove his prayer preferred | B |
| What have I done of all the year | C |
| To bear this hated doom severe | C |
| My cheerless suns no pleasure know | D |
| Night's horrid car drags dreary slow | D |
| My dismal months no joys are crowning | E |
| But spleeny English hanging drowning | E |
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| Now Jove for once be mighty civil | F |
| To counterbalance all this evil | F |
| Give me and I've no more to say | G |
| Give me Maria's natal day | G |
| That brilliant gift shall so enrich me | H |
| Spring Summer Autumn cannot match me | H |
| 'Tis done says Jove so ends my story | H |
| And Winter once rejoiced in glory | H |
Robert Burns
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