To Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries. With Johnson's 'musical Museum.' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDAAEEFG H| Thine be the volumes Jessy fair | A |
| And with them take the Poet's prayer | A |
| That fate may in her fairest page | B |
| With every kindliest best presage | C |
| Of future bliss enrol thy name | D |
| With native worth and spotless fame | D |
| And wakeful caution still aware | A |
| Of ill but chief man's felon snare | A |
| All blameless joys on earth we find | E |
| And all the treasures of the mind | E |
| These be thy guardian and reward | F |
| So prays thy faithful friend The Bard | G |
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| June | H |
Robert Burns
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