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