Love in the Guise of Frindship

Robert Burns 1759 (Alloway) – 1796 (Dumfries)



Talk not of love, it gives me pain,
For love has been my foe;
He bound me in an iron chain,
And plung'd me deep in woe.
 
But friendship's pure and lasting joys,
My heart was form'd to prove;
There, welcome win and wear the prize,
But never talk of love.
 
Your friendship much can make me blest,
O why that bliss destroy?
Why urge the only, one request
You know I will deny?
 
Your thought, if Love must harbour there,
Conceal it in that thought;
Nor cause it in that thought;
Nor cause me from my bosom tear
The very friend I sought.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 07, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB XXXX CXCX DEEDE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 540
Words 106
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 5

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