My Nannie's Awa. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCD EEFD GGHD H IIGD| Tune There'll never be peace | A |
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| Now in her green mantle blythe nature arrays | B |
| And listens the lambkins that bleat o'er the braes | B |
| While birds warble welcome in ilka green shaw | C |
| But to me it's delightless my Nannie's awa | D |
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| The snaw drap and primrose our woodlands adorn | E |
| And violets bathe in the weet o' the morn | E |
| They pain my sad bosom sae sweetly they blaw | F |
| They mind me o' Nannie and Nanny's awa | D |
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| Thou lav'rock that springs frae the dews of the lawn | G |
| The shepherd to warn o' the gray breaking dawn | G |
| And thou mellow mavis that hails the night fa' | H |
| Give over for pity my Nannie's awa | D |
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| IV | H |
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| Come autumn sae pensive in yellow and gray | I |
| And soothe me with tidings o' nature's decay | I |
| The dark dreary winter and wild driving snaw | G |
| Alane can delight me now Nannie's awa | D |
Robert Burns
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