Ode To The Memory Of Burns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABC DBCDBC EFCEFC GHIGHI JCKJCK FFBFFB FFFFFF CBLCBL CFFCFF MFNMFN FOPF OP QBCRBC SCCTCC ICUICU AVCAVCSoul of the Poet wheresoe'er | A |
Reclaimed from earth thy genius plume | B |
Her wings of immortality | C |
Suspend thy harp in happier sphere | A |
And with thine influence illume | B |
The gladness of our jubilee | C |
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And fly like fiends from secret spell | D |
Discord and Strife at Burn's name | B |
Exorcised by his memory | C |
For he was chief of bards that swell | D |
The heart with songs of social flame | B |
And high delicious revelry | C |
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And Love's own strain to him was given | E |
To warble all its ecstacies | F |
With Pythian words unsought unwilled | C |
Love the surviving gift of Heaven | E |
The choicest sweet of Paradise | F |
In life's else bitter cup distilled | C |
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Who that has melted o'er his lay | G |
To Mary's soul in Heaven above | H |
But pictured sees in fancy strong | I |
The landscape and the livelong day | G |
That smiled upon their mutual love | H |
Who that has felt forgets the song | I |
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Nor skilled one flame alone to fan | J |
His country's high souled peasantry | C |
What patriot pride he taught how much | K |
To weigh the inborn worth of man | J |
And rustic life and poverty | C |
Grow beautiful beneath his touch | K |
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Him in his clay built cot the Muse | F |
Entranced and showed him all the forms | F |
Of fairy light and wizard gloom | B |
That only gifted Poet views | F |
The Genii of the floods and storms | F |
And martial shades from Glory's tomb | B |
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On Bannock field what thoughts arouse | F |
The swain whom Burns's song inspires | F |
Beat not his Caledonian veins | F |
As o'er the heroic turf he ploughs | F |
With all the spirit of his sires | F |
And all their scorn of death and chains | F |
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And see the Scottish exile tanned | C |
By many a far and foreign clime | B |
Bend o'er his home born verse and weep | L |
In memory of his native land | C |
With love that scorns the lapse of time | B |
And ties that stretch beyond the deep | L |
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Encamped by Indian rivers wild | C |
The soldier resting on his arms | F |
In Burns's carol sweet recalls | F |
The scenes that blessed him when a child | C |
And glows and gladdens at the charms | F |
Of Scotia's woods and waterfalls | F |
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O deem not 'midst this worldly strife | M |
An idle art the Poet brings | F |
Let high Philosophy control | N |
And sages calm the stream of life | M |
'T is he refines its fountain springs | F |
The nobler passions of the soul | N |
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It is the muse that consecrates | F |
The native banner of the brave | O |
Unfurling at the trumpet's breath | P |
Rose thistle harp 't is she elates | F |
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To sweep the field or ride the wave | O |
A sunburst in the storm of death | P |
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And thou young hero when thy pall | Q |
Is crossed with mournful sword and plume | B |
When public grief begins to fade | C |
And only tears of kindred fall | R |
Who but the bard shall dress thy tomb | B |
And greet with fame thy gallant shade | C |
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Such was the soldier Burns forgive | S |
That sorrows of mine own intrude | C |
In strains to thy great memory due | C |
In verse like thine oh Could he live | T |
The friend I mourned the brave the good | C |
Edward that died at Waterloo | C |
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Farewell high chief of Scottish song | I |
That couldst alternately impart | C |
Wisdom and rapture in thy page | U |
And brand each vice with satire strong | I |
Whose lines are mottoes of the heart | C |
Whose truths electrify the sage | U |
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Farewell and ne'er may Envy dare | A |
To wring one baleful poison drop | V |
From the crushed laurels of thy bust | C |
But while the lark sings sweet in air | A |
Still may the grateful pilgrim stop | V |
To bless the spot that holds thy dust | C |
Thomas Campbell
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