Song-in The Character Of A Ruined Farmer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCC DDECC AAFCC GGHIC FFFFF JKIFF LMNFF| THE SUN he is sunk in the west | A |
| All creatures retir d to rest | A |
| While here I sit all sore beset | B |
| With sorrow grief and woe | C |
| And it's O fickle Fortune O | C |
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| The prosperous man is asleep | D |
| Nor hears how the whirlwinds sweep | D |
| But Misery and I must watch | E |
| The surly tempest blow | C |
| And it's O fickle Fortune O | C |
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| There lies the dear partner of my breast | A |
| Her cares for a moment at rest | A |
| Must I see thee my youthful pride | F |
| Thus brought so very low | C |
| And it's O fickle Fortune O | C |
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| There lie my sweet babies in her arms | G |
| No anxious fear their little hearts alarms | G |
| But for their sake my heart does ache | H |
| With many a bitter throe | I |
| And it's O fickle Fortune O | C |
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| I once was by Fortune carest | F |
| I once could relieve the distrest | F |
| Now life's poor support hardly earn'd | F |
| My fate will scarce bestow | F |
| And it's O fickle Fortune O | F |
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| No comfort no comfort I have | J |
| How welcome to me were the grave | K |
| But then my wife and children dear | I |
| O wither would they go | F |
| And it's O fickle Fortune O | F |
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| O whither O whither shall I turn | L |
| All friendless forsaken forlorn | M |
| For in this world Rest or Peace | N |
| I never more shall know | F |
| And it's O fickle Fortune O | F |
Robert Burns
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