Song-composed In August Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEB FAAAAGHG IBJBKLML NOPOKBQB RSTSABSB| NOW westlin winds and slaught'ring guns | A |
| Bring Autumn's pleasant weather | B |
| The moorcock springs on whirring wings | C |
| Amang the blooming heather | B |
| Now waving grain wide o'er the plain | D |
| Delights the weary farmer | B |
| And the moon shines bright when I rove at night | E |
| To muse upon my charmer | B |
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| The partridge loves the fruitful fells | F |
| The plover loves the mountains | A |
| The woodcock haunts the lonely dells | A |
| The soaring hern the fountains | A |
| Thro' lofty groves the cushat roves | A |
| The path of man to shun it | G |
| The hazel bush o'erhangs the thrush | H |
| The spreading thorn the linnet | G |
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| Thus ev'ry kind their pleasure find | I |
| The savage and the tender | B |
| Some social join and leagues combine | J |
| Some solitary wander | B |
| Avaunt away the cruel sway | K |
| Tyrannic man's dominion | L |
| The sportsman's joy the murd'ring cry | M |
| The flutt'ring gory pinion | L |
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| But Peggy dear the ev'ning's clear | N |
| Thick flies the skimming swallow | O |
| The sky is blue the fields in view | P |
| All fading green and yellow | O |
| Come let us stray our gladsome way | K |
| And view the charms of Nature | B |
| The rustling corn the fruited thorn | Q |
| And ev'ry happy creature | B |
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| We'll gently walk and sweetly talk | R |
| Till the silent moon shine clearly | S |
| I'll grasp thy waist and fondly prest | T |
| Swear how I love thee dearly | S |
| Not vernal show'rs to budding flow'rs | A |
| Not Autumn to the farmer | B |
| So dear can be as thou to me | S |
| My fair my lovely charmer | B |
Robert Burns
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