Ode To The Memory Of Burns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Soul of the Poet wheresoe'erA
Reclaimed from earth thy genius plumeB
Her wings of immortalityC
Suspend thy harp in happier sphereA
And with thine influence illumeB
The gladness of our jubileeC
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And fly like fiends from secret spellD
Discord and Strife at Burn's nameB
Exorcised by his memoryC
For he was chief of bards that swellD
The heart with songs of social flameB
And high delicious revelryC
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And Love's own strain to him was givenE
To warble all its ecstaciesF
With Pythian words unsought unwilledC
Love the surviving gift of HeavenE
The choicest sweet of ParadiseF
In life's else bitter cup distilledC
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Who that has melted o'er his layG
To Mary's soul in Heaven aboveH
But pictured sees in fancy strongI
The landscape and the livelong dayG
That smiled upon their mutual loveH
Who that has felt forgets the songI
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Nor skilled one flame alone to fanJ
His country's high souled peasantryC
What patriot pride he taught how muchK
To weigh the inborn worth of manJ
And rustic life and povertyC
Grow beautiful beneath his touchK
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Him in his clay built cot the MuseF
Entranced and showed him all the formsF
Of fairy light and wizard gloomB
That only gifted Poet viewsF
The Genii of the floods and stormsF
And martial shades from Glory's tombB
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On Bannock field what thoughts arouseF
The swain whom Burns's song inspiresF
Beat not his Caledonian veinsF
As o'er the heroic turf he ploughsF
With all the spirit of his siresF
And all their scorn of death and chainsF
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And see the Scottish exile tannedC
By many a far and foreign climeB
Bend o'er his home born verse and weepL
In memory of his native landC
With love that scorns the lapse of timeB
And ties that stretch beyond the deepL
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Encamped by Indian rivers wildC
The soldier resting on his armsF
In Burns's carol sweet recallsF
The scenes that blessed him when a childC
And glows and gladdens at the charmsF
Of Scotia's woods and waterfallsF
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O deem not 'midst this worldly strifeM
An idle art the Poet bringsF
Let high Philosophy controlN
And sages calm the stream of lifeM
'T is he refines its fountain springsF
The nobler passions of the soulN
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It is the muse that consecratesF
The native banner of the braveO
Unfurling at the trumpet's breathP
Rose thistle harp 't is she elatesF
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To sweep the field or ride the waveO
A sunburst in the storm of deathP
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And thou young hero when thy pallQ
Is crossed with mournful sword and plumeB
When public grief begins to fadeC
And only tears of kindred fallR
Who but the bard shall dress thy tombB
And greet with fame thy gallant shadeC
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Such was the soldier Burns forgiveS
That sorrows of mine own intrudeC
In strains to thy great memory dueC
In verse like thine oh Could he liveT
The friend I mourned the brave the goodC
Edward that died at WaterlooC
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Farewell high chief of Scottish songI
That couldst alternately impartC
Wisdom and rapture in thy pageU
And brand each vice with satire strongI
Whose lines are mottoes of the heartC
Whose truths electrify the sageU
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Farewell and ne'er may Envy dareA
To wring one baleful poison dropV
From the crushed laurels of thy bustC
But while the lark sings sweet in airA
Still may the grateful pilgrim stopV
To bless the spot that holds thy dustC

Thomas Campbell



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