Nature's Law. - A Poem Humbly Inscribed To G. H. Esq. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEDFGHG IJIKGLML NONOPQRQ STSTUFVF WXWXXGYG ZXZXMXA2X| Great nature spoke observant man obey'd | A |
| Pope | B |
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| Let other heroes boast their scars | C |
| The marks of sturt and strife | D |
| And other poets sing of wars | E |
| The plagues of human life | D |
| Shame fa' the fun wi' sword and gun | F |
| To slap mankind like lumber | G |
| I sing his name and nobler fame | H |
| Wha multiplies our number | G |
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| Great Nature spoke with air benign | I |
| Go on ye human race | J |
| This lower world I you resign | I |
| Be fruitful and increase | K |
| The liquid fire of strong desire | G |
| I've pour'd it in each bosom | L |
| Here in this hand does mankind stand | M |
| And there is beauty's blossom | L |
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| The hero of these artless strains | N |
| A lowly bard was he | O |
| Who sung his rhymes in Coila's plains | N |
| With meikle mirth an' glee | O |
| Kind Nature's care had given his share | P |
| Large of the flaming current | Q |
| And all devout he never sought | R |
| To stem the sacred torrent | Q |
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| He felt the powerful high behest | S |
| Thrill vital through and through | T |
| And sought a correspondent breast | S |
| To give obedience due | T |
| Propitious Powers screen'd the young flowers | U |
| From mildews of abortion | F |
| And lo the bard a great reward | V |
| Has got a double portion | F |
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| Auld cantie Coil may count the day | W |
| As annual it returns | X |
| The third of Libra's equal sway | W |
| That gave another B urns | X |
| With future rhymes an' other times | X |
| To emulate his sire | G |
| To sing auld Coil in nobler style | Y |
| With more poetic fire | G |
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| Ye Powers of peace and peaceful song | Z |
| Look down with gracious eyes | X |
| And bless auld Coila large and long | Z |
| With multiplying joys | X |
| Lang may she stand to prop the land | M |
| The flow'r of ancient nations | X |
| And B urns's spring her fame to sing | A2 |
| Thro' endless generations | X |
Robert Burns
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