Now Spring Has Clad The Grove In Green Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGHGIJIJ KLKLKMKM NJNJOPOP LQLQPRPR| Now spring has clad the grove in green | A |
| And strew'd the lea wi' flowers | B |
| The furrow'd waving corn is seen | A |
| Rejoice in fostering showers | B |
| While ilka thing in nature join | C |
| Their sorrows to forego | D |
| O why thus all alone are mine | E |
| The weary steps of woe | D |
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| The trout in yonder wimpling burn | F |
| That glides a silver dart | G |
| And safe beneath the shady thorn | H |
| Defies the angler's art | G |
| My life was ance that careless stream | I |
| That wanton trout was I | J |
| But love wi' unrelenting beam | I |
| Has scorch'd my fountains dry | J |
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| The little flow'ret's peaceful lot | K |
| In yonder cliff that grows | L |
| Which save the linnet's flight I wot | K |
| Nae ruder visit knows | L |
| Was mine till love has o'er me past | K |
| And blighted a' my bloom | M |
| And now beneath the with'ring blast | K |
| My youth and joy consume | M |
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| The waken'd lav'rock warbling springs | N |
| And climbs the early sky | J |
| Winnowing blythe her dewy wings | N |
| In morning's rosy eye | J |
| As little reckt I sorrow's power | O |
| Until the flowery snare | P |
| O' witching love in luckless hour | O |
| Made me the thrall o' care | P |
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| O had my fate been Greenland snows | L |
| Or Afric's burning zone | Q |
| Wi' man and nature leagu'd my foes | L |
| So Peggy ne'er I'd known | Q |
| The wretch whase doom is hope nae mair | P |
| What tongue his woes can tell | R |
| Within whase bosom save despair | P |
| Nae kinder spirits dwell | R |
Robert Burns
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