Stanzas, On The Same Occasion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDBEE BFBFFGFGG HIHIIJIJJ| WHY am I loth to leave this earthly scene | A |
| Have I so found it full of pleasing charms | B |
| Some drops of joy with draughts of ill between | A |
| Some gleams of sunshine 'mid renewing storms | C |
| Is it departing pangs my soul alarms | B |
| Or death's unlovely dreary dark abode | D |
| For guilt for guilt my terrors are in arms | B |
| I tremble to approach an angry God | E |
| And justly smart beneath His sin avenging rod | E |
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| Fain would I say Forgive my foul offence | B |
| Fain promise never more to disobey | F |
| But should my Author health again dispense | B |
| Again I might desert fair virtue's way | F |
| Again in folly's part might go astray | F |
| Again exalt the brute and sink the man | G |
| Then how should I for heavenly mercy pray | F |
| Who act so counter heavenly mercy's plan | G |
| Who sin so oft have mourn'd yet to temptation ran | G |
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| O Thou great Governor of all below | H |
| If I may dare a lifted eye to Thee | I |
| Thy nod can make the tempest cease to blow | H |
| Or still the tumult of the raging sea | I |
| With that controlling pow'r assist ev'n me | I |
| Those headlong furious passions to confine | J |
| For all unfit I feel my pow'rs to be | I |
| To rule their torrent in th' allowed line | J |
| O aid me with Thy help Omnipotence Divine | J |
Robert Burns
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