Borrow'd Plumes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCD EAEA FGHIJKLAM N OPOP AQAQ| A Preface and a Piracy | A |
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| Prologue | B |
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| Of borrow'd plumes I take the sin | C |
| My extracts will apply | D |
| To some few silly songs which in | C |
| These pages scatter'd lie | D |
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| The words are Edgar Allan Poe's | E |
| As any man may see | A |
| But what a poe t wrote in prose | E |
| Shall make blank verse for me | A |
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| These trifles are collected and republished chiefly with a view | F |
| to their redemption from the many improvements to which | G |
| they have been subjected while going at random the rounds of the Press | H |
| I am naturally anxious that what I have written should circulate | I |
| as I wrote it if it circulate at all In defence | J |
| of my own taste nevertheless it is incumbent upon me to say that I think | K |
| nothing in this volume of much value to the public or very creditable | L |
| to myself E A P | A |
| See Preface to Poe's Poetical Works | M |
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| Epilogue | N |
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| And now that my theft stands detected | O |
| The first of my extracts may call | P |
| To some of the rhymes here collected | O |
| Your notice the second to all | P |
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| Ah friend you may shake your head sadly | A |
| Yet this much you'll say for my verse | Q |
| I've written of old something badly | A |
| But written anew something worse | Q |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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