Verses On Castle Gordon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABCCCD EEFEFGGGD HHIHJGGGDSTREAMS 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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