The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD CECEFGFG HIHIHJHJ CHCHKJKJ CCCCLCMC NONPQKQK RSRSTCTC UVUVCCCC HEHEWCWC KTKTTHTH XTYTHCHC| MY lord I know your noble ear | A |
| Woe ne'er assails in vain | B |
| Embolden'd thus I beg you'll hear | A |
| Your humble slave complain | B |
| How saucy Phoebus' scorching beams | C |
| In flaming summer pride | D |
| Dry withering waste my foamy streams | C |
| And drink my crystal tide | D |
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| The lightly jumping glowrin' trouts | C |
| That thro' my waters play | E |
| If in their random wanton spouts | C |
| They near the margin stray | E |
| If hapless chance they linger lang | F |
| I'm scorching up so shallow | G |
| They're left the whitening stanes amang | F |
| In gasping death to wallow | G |
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| Last day I grat wi' spite and teen | H |
| As poet Burns came by | I |
| That to a bard I should be seen | H |
| Wi' half my channel dry | I |
| A panegyric rhyme I ween | H |
| Ev'n as I was he shor'd me | J |
| But had I in my glory been | H |
| He kneeling wad ador'd me | J |
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| Here foaming down the skelvy rocks | C |
| In twisting strength I rin | H |
| There high my boiling torrent smokes | C |
| Wild roaring o'er a linn | H |
| Enjoying each large spring and well | K |
| As Nature gave them me | J |
| I am altho' I say't mysel' | K |
| Worth gaun a mile to see | J |
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| Would then my noble master please | C |
| To grant my highest wishes | C |
| He'll shade my banks wi' tow'ring trees | C |
| And bonie spreading bushes | C |
| Delighted doubly then my lord | L |
| You'll wander on my banks | C |
| And listen mony a grateful bird | M |
| Return you tuneful thanks | C |
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| The sober lav'rock warbling wild | N |
| Shall to the skies aspire | O |
| The gowdspink Music's gayest child | N |
| Shall sweetly join the choir | P |
| The blackbird strong the lintwhite clear | Q |
| The mavis mild and mellow | K |
| The robin pensive Autumn cheer | Q |
| In all her locks of yellow | K |
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| This too a covert shall ensure | R |
| To shield them from the storm | S |
| And coward maukin sleep secure | R |
| Low in her grassy form | S |
| Here shall the shepherd make his seat | T |
| To weave his crown of flow'rs | C |
| Or find a shelt'ring safe retreat | T |
| From prone descending show'rs | C |
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| And here by sweet endearing stealth | U |
| Shall meet the loving pair | V |
| Despising worlds with all their wealth | U |
| As empty idle care | V |
| The flow'rs shall vie in all their charms | C |
| The hour of heav'n to grace | C |
| And birks extend their fragrant arms | C |
| To screen the dear embrace | C |
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| Here haply too at vernal dawn | H |
| Some musing bard may stray | E |
| And eye the smoking dewy lawn | H |
| And misty mountain grey | E |
| Or by the reaper's nightly beam | W |
| Mild chequering thro' the trees | C |
| Rave to my darkly dashing stream | W |
| Hoarse swelling on the breeze | C |
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| Let lofty firs and ashes cool | K |
| My lowly banks o'erspread | T |
| And view deep bending in the pool | K |
| Their shadow's wat'ry bed | T |
| Let fragrant birks in woodbines drest | T |
| My craggy cliffs adorn | H |
| And for the little songster's nest | T |
| The close embow'ring thorn | H |
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| So may old Scotia's darling hope | X |
| Your little angel band | T |
| Spring like their fathers up to prop | Y |
| Their honour'd native land | T |
| So may thro' Albion's farthest ken | H |
| To social flowing glasses | C |
| The grace be Athole's honest men | H |
| And Athole's bonie lasses | C |
Robert Burns
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