Robert Burns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO NINI PQPQ RSRS TUTU TVTV DOEO WXWX YTYT| One hundred years have come and gone | A |
| Since thy brave spirit came to earth | B |
| Since Scotland saw thy genius dawn | A |
| And had the joy to give thee birth | B |
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| There was no proud and brilliant throng | C |
| To celebrate thine advent here | D |
| And but the humble heard the song | C |
| Which first proclaim'd a poet near | E |
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| But genius will assert its right | F |
| To speak a word or chant a lay | G |
| And thou with independent might | F |
| Asserted it from day to day | G |
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| No fawning sycophantic whine | H |
| Marr'd the clear note thy spirit blew | I |
| Thy stirring words thy gift divine | H |
| Were to thyself and country true | I |
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| Tho' heir to naught of wealth or land | J |
| Thy soaring mind with fancy fir'd | K |
| Saw in Creation's lavish hand | J |
| The gifts display'd thy soul desir'd | K |
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| The field the forest and the hill | L |
| Supplied thee with exhaustless wealth | M |
| The singing birds and flowing rill | L |
| Unto thy soul gave food and health | M |
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| An honest man thou lov'd and thou | N |
| Wert honest to thy bosom's core | O |
| As harden'd hand and sweated brow | N |
| A true tho' silent witness bore | O |
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| No empty theorizer thou | N |
| Thy words said what thyself would do | I |
| Thou ne'er would make thy spirit bow | N |
| That worldly honors might accrue | I |
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| Torn by temptations strange and wild | P |
| Hard hearted critics laugh to scorn | Q |
| The fate of the poetic child | P |
| In rugged bonnie Scotland born | Q |
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| But let them laugh they laugh in vain | R |
| For they or we who know in part | S |
| Can never gauge the mighty strain | R |
| That burst the genial poet's heart | S |
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| It is enough for us to know | T |
| The songs he sang for Scotland's sake | U |
| Which winds of time can never blow | T |
| Into oblivion's silent lake | U |
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| O Burns thy life was sad we know | T |
| Thy sensitive and fertile mind | V |
| Had to withstand full many a blow | T |
| Dealt by the ignorant and blind | V |
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| But let us do thee justice here | D |
| Tho' distant from thy native shore | O |
| For all thy faults repress the sneer | E |
| And thy great qualities explore | O |
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| In Canada where all are free | W |
| And none can e'er be call'd a slave | X |
| Let Scotia's sons remember thee | W |
| And weave a garland for thy grave | X |
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| In fancy let them grace thy brows | Y |
| With wreathes of fadeless asphodel | T |
| And let them yearly plight their vows | Y |
| Unto the bard they love so well | T |
Thomas Frederick Young
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