Verses On Castle Gordon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABCCCD EEFEFGGGD HHIHJGGGD| STREAMS that glide in orient plains | A |
| Never bound by Winter's chains | A |
| Glowing here on golden sands | B |
| There immix'd with foulest stains | A |
| From Tyranny's empurpled hands | B |
| These their richly gleaming waves | C |
| I leave to tyrants and their slaves | C |
| Give me the stream that sweetly laves | C |
| The banks by Castle Gordon | D |
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| Spicy forests ever gray | E |
| Shading from the burning ray | E |
| Hapless wretches sold to toil | F |
| Or the ruthless native's way | E |
| Bent on slaughter blood and spoil | F |
| Woods that ever verdant wave | G |
| I leave the tyrant and the slave | G |
| Give me the groves that lofty brave | G |
| The storms by Castle Gordon | D |
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| Wildly here without control | H |
| Nature reigns and rules the whole | H |
| In that sober pensive mood | I |
| Dearest to the feeling soul | H |
| She plants the forest pours the flood | J |
| Life's poor day I'll musing rave | G |
| And find at night a sheltering cave | G |
| Where waters flow and wild woods wave | G |
| By bonie Castle Gordon | D |
Robert Burns
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Verses On Castle Gordon is a poem by Robert Burns. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.