On Scaring Some Water-fowl In Loch-turit. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEEFFGG HHIIJJ KILLMMMM NNNNOO PPMMNNFFWhy ye tenants of the lake | A |
For me your wat'ry haunt forsake | A |
Tell me fellow creatures why | B |
At my presence thus you fly | B |
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Why disturb your social joys | C |
Parent filial kindred ties | D |
Common friend to you and me | E |
Nature's gifts to all are free | E |
Peaceful keep your dimpling wave | F |
Busy feed or wanton lave | F |
Or beneath the sheltering rock | G |
Bide the surging billow's shock | G |
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Conscious blushing for our race | H |
Soon too soon your fears I trace | H |
Man your proud usurping foe | I |
Would be lord of all below | I |
Plumes himself in Freedom's pride | J |
Tyrant stern to all beside | J |
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The eagle from the cliffy brow | K |
Marking you his prey below | I |
In his breast no pity dwells | L |
Strong necessity compels | L |
But man to whom alone is giv'n | M |
A ray direct from pitying heav'n | M |
Glories in his heart humane | M |
And creatures for his pleasure slain | M |
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In these savage liquid plains | N |
Only known to wand'ring swains | N |
Where the mossy riv'let strays | N |
Far from human haunts and ways | N |
All on Nature you depend | O |
And life's poor season peaceful spend | O |
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Or if man's superior might | P |
Dare invade your native right | P |
On the lofty ether borne | M |
Man with all his pow'rs you scorn | M |
Swiftly seek on clanging wings | N |
Other lakes and other springs | N |
And the foe you cannot brave | F |
Scorn at least to be his slave | F |
Robert Burns
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