To His Lute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACADAEFGEHH| My lute be as thou wert when thou didst grow | A |
| With thy green mother in some shady grove | B |
| When immelodious winds but made thee move | C |
| And birds their ramage did on thee bestow | A |
| Since that dear Voice which did thy sounds approve | C |
| Which wont in such harmonious strains to flow | A |
| Is reft from Earth to tune those spheres above | D |
| What art thou but a harbinger of woe | A |
| Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more | E |
| But orphans' wailings to the fainting ear | F |
| Each stroke a sigh each sound draws forth a tear | G |
| For which be silent as in woods before | E |
| Or if that any hand to touch thee deign | H |
| Like widowed turtle still her loss complain | H |
William Henry Drummond
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