To A Mouse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCBC DDDCDC AAABAB DDDDDD BBBCBC CCCBCB DDDCDE BBBFBF| On Turning her up in her Nest with the Plough | A |
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| Wee sleekit cow'rin' tim'rous beastie | B |
| O what a panic's in thy breastie | B |
| Thou need na start awa sae hasty | B |
| Wi' bickering brattle | C |
| I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee | B |
| Wi' murd'ring pattle | C |
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| I'm truly sorry man's dominion | D |
| Has broken nature's social union | D |
| An' justifies that ill opinion | D |
| Which makes thee startle | C |
| At me thy poor earth born companion | D |
| An' fellow mortal | C |
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| I doubt na whiles but thou may thieve | A |
| What then poor beastie thou maun live | A |
| A daimen icker in a thrave | A |
| 'S a sma' request | B |
| I'll get a blessin' wi' the lave | A |
| And never miss't | B |
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| Thy wee bit housie too in ruin | D |
| Its silly wa's the win's are strewin' | D |
| And naething now to big a new ane | D |
| O' foggage green | D |
| An' bleak December's winds ensuin' | D |
| Baith snell an' keen | D |
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| Thou saw the fields laid bare and waste | B |
| An' weary winter comin' fast | B |
| An' cozie here beneath the blast | B |
| Thou thought to dwell | C |
| Till crash the cruel coulter past | B |
| Out thro' thy cell | C |
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| That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble | C |
| Has cost thee mony a weary nibble | C |
| Now thou's turned out for a' thy trouble | C |
| But house or hald | B |
| To thole the winter's sleety dribble | C |
| An' cranreuch cauld | B |
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| But Mousie thou art no thy lane | D |
| In proving foresight may be vain | D |
| The best laid schemes o' mice an' men | D |
| Gang aft a gley | C |
| An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain | D |
| For promised joy | E |
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| Still thou art blest compared wi' me | B |
| The present only toucheth thee | B |
| But oh I backward cast my e'e | B |
| On prospects drear | F |
| An' forward tho' I canna see | B |
| I guess an' fear | F |
Robert Burns
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Robin Goodfellow: Loved revisiting it. It is appropriate for today as well.