Song-yonder Pomp Of Costly Fashion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DDEFFGGE HIJIK LLMNOPKM| MARK yonder pomp of costly fashion | A |
| Round the wealthy titled bride | B |
| But when compar'd with real passion | A |
| Poor is all that princely pride | B |
| Mark yonder c four lines repeated | C |
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| What are the showy treasures | D |
| What are the noisy pleasures | D |
| The gay gaudy glare of vanity and art | E |
| The polish'd jewels' blaze | F |
| May draw the wond'ring gaze | F |
| And courtly grandeur bright | G |
| The fancy may delight | G |
| But never never can come near the heart | E |
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| But did you see my dearest Chloris | H |
| In simplicity's array | I |
| Lovely as yonder sweet opening flower is | J |
| Shrinking from the gaze of day | I |
| But did you see c | K |
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| O then the heart alarming | L |
| And all resistless charming | L |
| In Love's delightful fetters she chains the willing soul | M |
| Ambition would disown | N |
| The world's imperial crown | O |
| Ev'n Avarice would deny | P |
| His worshipp'd deity | K |
| And feel thro' every vein Love's raptures roll | M |
Robert Burns
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