Streams That Glide In Orient Plains. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCBCDDDE AAFAFGGGE HHIHJGGGE| Tune Morag | A |
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| I | - |
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| Streams that glide in orient plains | B |
| Never bound by winter's chains | B |
| Glowing here on golden sands | C |
| There commix'd with foulest stains | B |
| From tyranny's empurpled bands | C |
| These their richly gleaming waves | D |
| I leave to tyrants and their slaves | D |
| Give me the stream that sweetly laves | D |
| The banks by Castle Gordon | E |
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| II | - |
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| Spicy forests ever gay | A |
| Shading from the burning ray | A |
| Hapless wretches sold to toil | F |
| Or the ruthless native's way | A |
| Bent on slaughter blood and spoil | F |
| Woods that ever verdant wave | G |
| I leave the tyrant and the slave | G |
| Give me the groves that lofty brave | G |
| The storms by Castle Gordon | E |
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| III | - |
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| Wildly here without control | H |
| Nature reigns and rules the whole | H |
| In that sober pensive mood | I |
| Dearest to the feeling soul | H |
| She plants the forest pours the flood | J |
| Life's poor day I'll musing rave | G |
| And find at night a sheltering cave | G |
| Where waters flow and wild woods wave | G |
| By bonnie Castle Gordon | E |
Robert Burns
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