Discontent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCDECECCC CFCCECECCC CGCGGHGHHH CICIGGGGGGLAURENCE 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 |
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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 |
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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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