The Poet's Apology Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDEFFFE GGHA A IIIJKKKJ LMLACCCA| No the Muse has gone away | A |
| Does not haunt me much to day | A |
| Everything she had to say | A |
| Has been said | B |
| 'Twas not much at any time | C |
| She could hitch into a rhyme | C |
| Never was the Muse sublime | C |
| Who has fled | B |
| - | |
| Any one who takes her in | D |
| May observe she's rather thin | D |
| Little more than bone and skin | D |
| Is the Muse | E |
| Scanty sacrifice she won | F |
| When her very best she'd done | F |
| And at her they poked their fun | F |
| In Reviews | E |
| - | |
| 'Rhymes ' in truth 'are stubborn things ' | - |
| And to Rhyme she clung and clings | G |
| But whatever song she sings | G |
| Scarcely sells | H |
| If her tone be grave they say | A |
| 'Give us something rather gay ' | - |
| If she's skittish then they pray | A |
| 'Something else ' | - |
| - | |
| Much she loved for wading shod | I |
| To go forth with line and rod | I |
| Loved the heather and the sod | I |
| Loved to rest | J |
| On the crystal river's brim | K |
| Where she saw the fishes swim | K |
| And she heard the thrushes' hymn | K |
| By the Test | J |
| - | |
| She whatever way she went | L |
| Friendly was and innocent | M |
| Little need the Bard repent | L |
| Of her lay | A |
| Of the babble and the rhyme | C |
| And the imitative chime | C |
| That amused him on a time | C |
| Now he's grey | A |
Andrew Lang
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