Wae Is My Heart. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCD EFGG HIBB| Tune Wae is my heart | A |
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| Wae is my heart and the tear's in my e'e | B |
| Lang lang joy's been a stranger to me | B |
| Forsaken and friendless my burden I bear | C |
| And the sweet voice of pity ne'er sounds in my ear | D |
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| Love thou hast pleasures and deep hae I loved | E |
| Love thou hast sorrows and sair hae I proved | F |
| But this bruised heart that now bleeds in my breast | G |
| I can feel by its throbbings will soon be at rest | G |
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| O if I were happy where happy I hae been | H |
| Down by yon stream and yon bonnie castle green | I |
| For there he is wand'ring and musing on me | B |
| Wha wad soon dry the tear frae his Phillis's e'e | B |
Robert Burns
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