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8-part song, each with a subhead, each containing 3 quatrains

3 stanzas, ababab

Two short verses with epigraph: "he loves me - loves me not." The first verse asks "who would not love..." The second verse begins "who would not dream..."

3 quatrains, abab

Dialogue between a child and his unborn brother

Ballad of Sir Robert, the Laird of Lag, who captures a hill lad to make him tell where Tam Glen is; he refuses; Robert kills him, to horror of his men; mother comes and cleans body

5 8-line stanzas, ababcdcd

quatrains abab

The poem celebrates spring, renewal, love: “For the old god Pan hath taken a wife/ And the whole world shares their mirth..."

6 quatrains abab