Bobbie's Statue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF HIJKLMNM OPQPRSTS UVUVWVXV RQYQZVA2V QB2VB2ZVZV C2D2E2D2F2VXV

Grown tired of mourning for my sinsA
And brooding over meritsB
The other night with aching heartC
I went amongst the spiritsD
And I met one that I knew wellE
O Scotty's Ghost is that youF
And did you see the fearsome crowdG
At Bobbie Burns's statueF
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They hurried up in hansom cabsH
Tall hatted and frock coatedI
They trained it in from all the townsJ
The weird and hairy throatedK
They spoke in some outlandish tongueL
They cut some comic capersM
And ilka man was wild to getN
His name in all the papersM
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They showed no sign of intellectO
Those frauds who rushed before usP
They knew one verse of 'Auld Lang Syne'Q
The first one and the chorusP
They clacked the clack o' Scotlan''s BardR
They glibly talked of 'Rabby'S
But what if he had come to themT
Without a groat and shabbyS
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They drank and wept for Rabbie's sakeU
They stood and brayed like assesV
The living bard's a drunken rakeU
The dead one loved the lassesV
If Bobbie Burns were here they'd sitW
As still as any mouse isV
If Bobbie Bums should come their wayX
They'd turn him out their housesV
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O weep for bonny Scotland's BardR
And praise the Scottish nationQ
Who made him spy and let him dieY
Heart broken in privationQ
Exciseman so that he might liveZ
Through northern winters' rigoursV
Just as in southern lands they giveA2
The hard up rhymer figuresV
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We need some songs of stinging funQ
To wake the States and light 'emB2
I wish a man like Robert BurnsV
Were here to day to write 'emB2
But still the mockery shall surviveZ
Till Day o' Judgement crashesV
The men we scorn when we're aliveZ
With praise insult our ashesV
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And Scotty's Ghost said Never mindC2
The fleas that you inheritD2
The living bard can flick 'em offE2
They cannot hurt his spiritD2
The crawlers round the poet's nameF2
Shall crawl through all the agesV
His work's the living thing and theyX
Are fly dirt on the pagesV

Henry Lawson



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