On Finding A Copy Of Burns's Poems In The House Of An Ontario Farmer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG DHDH IJIJ KLKL KMKM DMDM NDND OPOP| Large Book with heavy covers worn and old | A |
| Bearing clear proof of usage and of years | B |
| Thine edges yellow with their faded gold | A |
| Thy leaves with fingers stained perchance with tears | C |
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| How oft thy venerable page has felt | D |
| The hardened hands of honorable toil | E |
| How oft thy simple song had power to melt | D |
| The hearts of the rude tillers of the soil | E |
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| How oft has fancy borne them back to see | F |
| The Scottish peasant at his work and thou | G |
| Hast made them feel the grandeur of the free | F |
| And independent follower of the plough | G |
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| What careth he that his proud name hath peal'd | D |
| From shore to shore since his new race began | H |
| In humble cot and histie stibble field | D |
| Who doth preserve the dignity of man | H |
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| With reverent hands I lay aside the tome | I |
| And to my longing heart content returns | J |
| And in the stranger's house I am at home | I |
| For thou dost make us brothers Robert Burns | J |
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| And thou old Book go down from sire to son | K |
| Repeat the pathos of the poet's life | L |
| Sing the sweet song of him who fought and won | K |
| The outward struggle and the inward strife | L |
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| Go down grand Book from hoary sire to son | K |
| Keep by the Book of books thy wonted place | M |
| Tell what a son of man hath felt and done | K |
| And make of us and ours a noble race | M |
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| A race to scorn the sordid greed of gold | D |
| To spurn the spurious and contemn the base | M |
| Despise the shams that may be bought and sold | D |
| A race of brothers and of men a race | M |
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| To usher in the long expected time | N |
| Good men have sought and prophets have foretold | D |
| When this bright world shall be the happy clime | N |
| Of brotherhood and peace when men shall mould | D |
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| Their lives like His who walked in Palestine | O |
| The truly human manhood thou dost show | P |
| Leading them upward to the pure divine | O |
| Nature of God made manifest below | P |
W. M. Mackeracher
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