Discontent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCDECECCC CFCCECECCC CGCGGHGHHH CICIGGGGGG| LAURENCE RABY | A |
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| Laurence | B |
| I said to young Allan M'Ilveray | C |
| Beside the swift swirls of the North | D |
| When in lilac shot through with a silver ray | C |
| We haul'd the strong salmon fish forth | D |
| Said only He gave us some trouble | E |
| To land him and what does he weigh | C |
| Our friend has caught one that weighs double | E |
| The game for the candle won't pay | C |
| Us to day | C |
| We may tie up our rods and away | C |
| - | |
| I said to old Norman M'Gregor | C |
| Three leagues to the west of Glen Dhu | F |
| I had drawn with a touch of the trigger | C |
| The best bead that ever I drew | C |
| Said merely For birds in the stubble | E |
| I once had an eye I could swear | C |
| He's down but he's not worth the trouble | E |
| Of seeking You once shot a bear | C |
| In his lair | C |
| 'Tis only a buck that lies there | C |
| - | |
| I said to Lord Charles only last year | C |
| The time that we topp'd the oak rail | G |
| Between Wharton's plough and Whynne's pasture | C |
| And clear'd the big brook in Blakesvale | G |
| We only at Warburton's double | G |
| He fell then I finish'd the run | H |
| And kill'd clean said So bursts a bubble | G |
| That shone half an hour in the sun | H |
| What is won | H |
| Your sire clear'd and captured a gun | H |
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| I said to myself in true sorrow | C |
| I said yestere'en A fair prize | I |
| Is won and it may be to morrow | C |
| 'Twill not seem so fair in thine eyes | I |
| Real life is a race through sore trouble | G |
| That gains not an inch on the goal | G |
| And bliss an intangible bubble | G |
| That cheats an unsatisfied soul | G |
| And the whole | G |
| Of the rest an illegible scroll | G |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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