Thickest Night, O'erhang My Dwelling. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC BDBD EFEF C GHGH| Tune Strathallan's Lament | A |
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| I | - |
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| Thickest night surround my dwelling | B |
| Howling tempests o'er me rave | C |
| Turbid torrents wintry swelling | B |
| Roaring by my lonely cave | C |
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| II | - |
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| Crystal streamlets gently flowing | B |
| Busy haunts of base mankind | D |
| Western breezes softly blowing | B |
| Suit not my distracted mind | D |
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| III | - |
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| In the cause of Right engaged | E |
| Wrongs injurious to redress | F |
| Honour's war we strongly waged | E |
| But the heavens denied success | F |
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| IV | C |
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| Ruin's wheel has driven o'er us | G |
| Not a hope that dare attend | H |
| The wild world is all before us | G |
| But a world without a friend | H |
Robert Burns
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