Thick-headed Thoughts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJKLMLM NANAOPOP A QOQOQORR A STST UVUW UXUX KYKY XZXZ| No I | A |
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| I've something of the bull dog in my breed | B |
| The spaniel is developed somewhat less | C |
| While life is in me I can fight and bleed | B |
| But never the chastising hand caress | C |
| You say the stroke was well intended True | D |
| You mention It was meant to do me good | E |
| That may be You deserve it Granted too | D |
| Then take it kindly No I never could | E |
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| How many a resolution to amend | F |
| Is made and broken as the years run round | G |
| And how can others on your word depend | F |
| When faithless to ourselves we're often found | G |
| I've often swore Henceforward I'll reform | H |
| And bid my vices follies all take wing | I |
| To keep my promise 'mid temptation's storm | H |
| I've always found was quite another thing | I |
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| I saw a donkey going down the road | J |
| The other day a boy was on his back | K |
| Who on the long eared quadruped bestowed | J |
| With a stout cudgel many a hearty thwack | K |
| But lazier and lazier grew the beast | L |
| Until he dwindled to a step so slow | M |
| That I felt sure 'twould take him at the least | L |
| Full half an hour one blessed mile to go | M |
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| Soliloquising on this state of things | N |
| That moke's like me I muttered with a sigh | A |
| He might go faster if he'd got some wings | N |
| But Nature's made him better off than I | A |
| For though I've all his obstinacy aye all | O |
| His sullen spirit and his dogged ways | P |
| I've not one particle however small | O |
| Of that praiseworthy patience he displays | P |
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| No II | A |
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| A man is independent of the world | Q |
| And little recks of strife or angry brawl | O |
| If 'gainst a host his banner be unfurled | Q |
| Be his heart stout it matters not at all | O |
| With woman 'tis not so for she seems hurled | Q |
| From hand to hand as is a tennis ball | O |
| How queer that such a difference should be | R |
| Between a human he and human she | R |
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| No III | A |
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| 'Tis a wicked world we live in | S |
| Wrong in reason wrong in rhyme | T |
| But no matter we'll not give in | S |
| While we still can come to time | T |
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| Strength's a shadow Hope is madness | U |
| Love delusion Friendship sham | V |
| Pleasure fades away to sadness | U |
| None of these are worth a d n | W |
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| There is naught on earth to please us | U |
| All things at the crisis fail | X |
| Friends desert us bailiffs tease us | U |
| To such foes we give leg bail | X |
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| But a stout heart still maintaining | K |
| Quells the ills we all must meet | Y |
| And a spirit fear disdaining | K |
| Lays our troubles at our feet | Y |
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| So we'll ne'er surrender tamely | X |
| To the ills that throng us fast | Z |
| If we must die let's die gamely | X |
| Luck may take a turn at last | Z |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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