Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFDF A GHIHJKLK A MNOCKMKM P QRGOKSTS P UPKPKPVP P WXYXWPKP P WGWGZPMPI | A |
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Now Nature hangs her mantle green | B |
On every blooming tree | C |
And spreads her sheets o' daisies white | D |
Out o'er the grassy lea | C |
Now Phoebus cheers the crystal streams | E |
And glads the azure skies | F |
But nought can glad the weary wight | D |
That fast in durance lies | F |
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II | A |
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Now lav'rocks wake the merry morn | G |
Aloft on dewy wing | H |
The merle in his noontide bow'r | I |
Makes woodland echoes ring | H |
The mavis wild wi' mony a note | J |
Sings drowsy day to rest | K |
In love and freedom they rejoice | L |
Wi' care nor thrall opprest | K |
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III | A |
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Now blooms the lily by the bank | M |
The primrose down the brae | N |
The hawthorn's budding in the glen | O |
And milk white is the slae | C |
The meanest hind in fair Scotland | K |
May rove their sweets amang | M |
But I the Queen of a' Scotland | K |
Maun lie in prison strang | M |
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IV | P |
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I was the Queen o' bonnie France | Q |
Where happy I hae been | R |
Fu' lightly rase I in the morn | G |
As blythe lay down at e'en | O |
And I'm the sov'reign o' Scotland | K |
And mony a traitor there | S |
Yet here I lie in foreign bands | T |
And never ending care | S |
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V | P |
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But as for thee thou false woman | U |
My sister and my fae | P |
Grim vengeance yet shall whet a sword | K |
That thro' thy soul shall gae | P |
The weeping blood in woman's breast | K |
Was never known to thee | P |
Nor th' balm that draps on wounds of woe | V |
Frae woman's pitying e'e | P |
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VI | P |
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My son my son may kinder stars | W |
Upon thy fortune shine | X |
And may those pleasures gild thy reign | Y |
That ne'er wad blink on mine | X |
God keep thee frae thy mother's faes | W |
Or turn their hearts to thee | P |
And where thou meet'st thy mother's friend | K |
Remember him for me | P |
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VII | P |
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O soon to me may summer suns | W |
Nae mair light up the morn | G |
Nae mair to me the autumn winds | W |
Wave o'er the yellow corn | G |
And in the narrow house o' death | Z |
Let winter round me rave | P |
And the next flow'rs that deck the spring | M |
Bloom on my peaceful grave | P |
Robert Burns
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