Song-my Nanie's Awa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEC FFGC HHFC| NOW in her green mantle blythe Nature arrays | A |
| And listens the lambkins that bleat o'er her braes | A |
| While birds warble welcomes in ilka green shaw | B |
| But to me it's delightless my Nanie's awa | C |
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| The snawdrap and primrose our woodlands adorn | D |
| And violetes bathe in the weet o' the morn | D |
| They pain my sad bosom sae sweetly they blaw | E |
| They mind me o' Nanie and Nanie's awa | C |
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| Thou lav'rock that springs frae the dews of the lawn | F |
| The shepherd to warn o' the grey breaking dawn | F |
| And thou mellow mavis that hails the night fa' | G |
| Give over for pity my Nanie's awa | C |
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| Come Autumn sae pensive in yellow and grey | H |
| And soothe me wi' tidings o' Nature's decay | H |
| The dark dreary Winter and wild driving snaw | F |
| Alane can delight me now Nanie's awa | C |
Robert Burns
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