James Macfarlan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCCBBDDEFGGHHBB IIJJKKLJJJJ| 'A man's a man for a' that' how does he know | A |
| Traipsing with his plough the rural hero | A |
| Swaggering down the lea rigs talking to mice | B |
| Sweating his sickly verses to entice | B |
| Lassies he'd never see again strutting | C |
| Through the salons in his best breeches rutting | C |
| In a cloud of claret buttonholing | C |
| Lord This sweet talking Doctor That bowling | C |
| His wit down levees bosoms siller quaichs | B |
| D'ye think he's ever heard the groans and skraighs | B |
| Of city gutters or marked the shapes that wrap | D |
| Fog and smoke about them as if they could hap | D |
| Homelessness or keep hunger at bay What | E |
| Not heard or seen but has he even thought | F |
| How some and many and more than many survive | G |
| Or don't survive on factory floors or thrive | G |
| Or fail to thrive by foundry fires or try | H |
| To find the words sparks scatter and bolts fly | H |
| That's feeble to show the new age its dark face | B |
| The Carron Ironworks how he laughed at the place | B |
| Made a joke of our misery passed on | I |
| To window scratch his diamond trivia and swan | I |
| Through country house and customs post servile | J |
| To the very gods from which he ought to resile | J |
| 'Liberty's a glorious feast ' you said | K |
| Is that right Wouldn't the poor rather have bread | K |
| Burns man I'm hard on you I'm sorry for it | L |
| I think such poetry is dangerous that's all | J |
| Poetry must pierce the filthy wall | J |
| With cries that die on country ways The glow | J |
| Of bonhomie will not let the future grow | J |
Edwin Morgan
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