Song-behold, My Love, How Green The Groves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIJ DFCF FKLK MFNFBEHOLD my love how green the groves | A |
The primrose banks how fair | B |
The balmy gales awake the flowers | C |
And wave thy flowing hair | B |
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The lav'rock shuns the palace gay | D |
And o'er the cottage sings | E |
For Nature smiles as sweet I ween | F |
To Shepherds as to Kings | E |
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Let minstrels sweep the skilfu' string | G |
In lordly lighted ha' | H |
The Shepherd stops his simple reed | I |
Blythe in the birken shaw | J |
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The Princely revel may survey | D |
Our rustic dance wi' scorn | F |
But are their hearts as light as ours | C |
Beneath the milk white thorn | F |
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The shepherd in the flowery glen | F |
In shepherd's phrase will woo | K |
The courtier tells a finer tale | L |
But is his heart as true | K |
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These wild wood flowers I've pu'd to deck | M |
That spotless breast o' thine | F |
The courtiers' gems may witness love | N |
But 'tis na love like mine | F |
Robert Burns
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