Menie. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AAAABCDC EFGF HAHA I A A I JEKE LBAB EIEIBIDI| Tune Johnny's grey breeks | A |
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| I | - |
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| Again rejoicing nature sees | A |
| Her robe assume its vernal hues | A |
| Her leafy locks wave in the breeze | A |
| All freshly steep'd in morning dews | A |
| And maun I still on Menie doat | B |
| And bear the scorn that's in her e'e | C |
| For it's jet jet black an' it's like a hawk | D |
| An' it winna let a body be | C |
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| II | - |
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| In vain to me the cowslips blaw | E |
| In vain to me the vi'lets spring | F |
| In vain to me in glen or shaw | G |
| The mavis and the lintwhite sing | F |
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| III | - |
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| The merry plough boy cheers his team | H |
| Wi' joy the tentie seedsman stalks | A |
| But life to me's a weary dream | H |
| A dream of ane that never wauks | A |
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| IV | I |
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| The wanton coot the water skims | A |
| Amang the reeds the ducklings cry | - |
| The stately swan majestic swims | A |
| And every thing is blest but I | - |
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| V | I |
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| The sheep herd steeks his faulding slap | J |
| And owre the moorland whistles shrill | E |
| Wi' wild unequal wand'ring step | K |
| I meet him on the dewy hill | E |
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| VI | - |
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| And when the lark 'tween light and dark | L |
| Blythe waukens by the daisy's side | B |
| And mounts and sings on flittering wings | A |
| A woe worn ghaist I hameward glide | B |
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| Come Winter with thine angry howl | E |
| And raging bend the naked tree | I |
| Thy gloom will sooth my cheerless soul | E |
| When nature all is sad like me | I |
| And maun I still on Menie doat | B |
| And bear the scorn that's in her e'e | I |
| For it's jet jet black an' it's like a hawk | D |
| An' it winna let a body be | I |
Robert Burns
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