The Bore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DAEB FBAG HGIG JGKG LGMA GCNG GGGG OGCG| Ah prithee friend if thou has ought | A |
| Of love and kind regard for me | B |
| Tell not you bore the stories droll | C |
| That yesternight I told to thee | B |
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| Nor tell him stories of thine own | D |
| Nor chestnut of antiquitee | A |
| Nor quip nor crank nor anything | E |
| If thou has ought of love for me | B |
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| For sense of humour hath he none | F |
| No gift for telling tales hath he | B |
| Yet thinks himself within his heart | A |
| A wit of wondrous drolleree | G |
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| And in the golden summer time | H |
| With ear a cock he roameth free | G |
| Collecting quibble quip and crank | I |
| And anecdotes collecteth he | G |
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| Then in the dreary winter nights | J |
| He sits him down 'neath my roof tree | G |
| And in a coarse ungently voice | K |
| He tells those stories back to me | G |
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| He hath no wit for telling tales | L |
| He laughs where ne'er a point there be | G |
| But sits and murders honest yarns | M |
| And claims them as his propertee | A |
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| When he laughs I rock and roar | G |
| Ay laugh both loud and merrilee | C |
| And mark thou friend my martyrdom | N |
| He is a creditor to me | G |
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| He is a man of mighty power | G |
| In very fact a great J P | G |
| And I his debtor rock and roar | G |
| And vow he'll be the death o' me | G |
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| Ay prithee friend if thou hast love | O |
| For goodly jests or care for me | G |
| Then tell him not the merry tale | C |
| That yesternight I told to thee | G |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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