The Fête Champêtre Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FBGBHDID JBKBLDLD MBMBNDOD DBPBQDRD SBSBTDUD VBWBXDDDO WHA will to Saint Stephen's House | A |
To do our errands there man | B |
O wha will to Saint Stephen's House | A |
O' th' merry lads of Ayr man | B |
Or will we send a man o' law | C |
Or will we send a sodger | D |
Or him wha led o'er Scotland a' | E |
The meikle Ursa Major | D |
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Come will ye court a noble lord | F |
Or buy a score o'lairds man | B |
For worth and honour pawn their word | G |
Their vote shall be Glencaird's man | B |
Ane gies them coin ane gies them wine | H |
Anither gies them clatter | D |
Annbank wha guessed the ladies' taste | I |
He gies a F te Champ tre | D |
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When Love and Beauty heard the news | J |
The gay green woods amang man | B |
Where gathering flowers and busking bowers | K |
They heard the blackbird's sang man | B |
A vow they sealed it with a kiss | L |
Sir Politics to fetter | D |
As their's alone the patent bliss | L |
To hold a F te Champ tre | D |
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Then mounted Mirth on gleesome wing | M |
O'er hill and dale she flew man | B |
Ilk wimpling burn ilk crystal spring | M |
Ilk glen and shaw she knew man | B |
She summon'd every social sprite | N |
That sports by wood or water | D |
On th' bonie banks of Ayr to meet | O |
And keep this F te Champ tre | D |
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Cauld Boreas wi' his boisterous crew | D |
Were bound to stakes like kye man | B |
And Cynthia's car o' silver fu' | P |
Clamb up the starry sky man | B |
Reflected beams dwell in the streams | Q |
Or down the current shatter | D |
The western breeze steals thro'the trees | R |
To view this F te Champ tre | D |
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How many a robe sae gaily floats | S |
What sparkling jewels glance man | B |
To Harmony's enchanting notes | S |
As moves the mazy dance man | B |
The echoing wood the winding flood | T |
Like Paradise did glitter | D |
When angels met at Adam's yett | U |
To hold their F te Champ tre | D |
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When Politics came there to mix | V |
And make his ether stane man | B |
He circled round the magic ground | W |
But entrance found he nane man | B |
He blush'd for shame he quat his name | X |
Forswore it every letter | D |
Wi' humble prayer to join and share | D |
This festive F te Champ tre | D |
Robert Burns
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