On Scaring Some Water-fowl In Loch-turit. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEEFFGG HHIIJJ KILLMMMM NNNNOO PPMMNNFF| Why 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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