In The Character Of A Ruined Farmer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDD EEFDD BBGDD HHIJD GGGGG KLJGG MNOGG| Tune Go from my window Love do | A |
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| The sun he is sunk in the west | B |
| All creatures retired to rest | B |
| While here I sit all sore beset | C |
| With sorrow grief and woe | D |
| And it's O fickle Fortune O | D |
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| The prosperous man is asleep | E |
| Nor hears how the whirlwinds sweep | E |
| But Misery and I must watch | F |
| The surly tempest blow | D |
| And it's O fickle Fortune O | D |
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| There lies the dear partner of my breast | B |
| Her cares for a moment at rest | B |
| Must I see thee my youthful pride | G |
| Thus brought so very low | D |
| And it's O fickle Fortune O | D |
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| There lie my sweet babies in her arms | H |
| No anxious fear their little hearts alarms | H |
| But for their sake my heart does ache | I |
| With many a bitter throe | J |
| And it's O fickle Fortune O | D |
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| I once was by Fortune carest | G |
| I once could relieve the distrest | G |
| Now life's poor support hardly earn'd | G |
| My fate will scarce bestow | G |
| And it's O fickle Fortune O | G |
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| No comfort no comfort I have | K |
| How welcome to me were the grave | L |
| But then my wife and children dear | J |
| O wither would they go | G |
| And it's O fickle Fortune O | G |
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| O whither O whither shall I turn | M |
| All friendless forsaken forlorn | N |
| For in this world Rest or Peace | O |
| I never more shall know | G |
| And it's O fickle Fortune O | G |
Robert Burns
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