Robbie's Statue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF HIJKLMNM OPQPRSTS UVUVWVXV RQYQZVA2V QTVTZVZV B2C2D2C2E2VXV| Grown tired of mourning for my sins | A |
| And brooding over merits | B |
| The other night with bothered brow | C |
| I went amongst the spirits | D |
| And I met one that I knew well | E |
| Oh Scotty s Ghost is that you | F |
| And did you see the fearsome crowd | G |
| At Robbie Burns s statue | F |
| - | |
| They hurried up in hansom cabs | H |
| Tall hatted and frock coated | I |
| They trained it in from all the towns | J |
| The weird and hairy throated | K |
| They spoke in some outlandish tongue | L |
| They cut some comic capers | M |
| And ilka man was wild to get | N |
| His name in all the papers | M |
| - | |
| They showed no gleam of intellect | O |
| Those frauds who rushed before us | P |
| They knew one verse of Auld Lang Syne | Q |
| The first one and the chorus | P |
| They clacked the clack o Scotlan s Bard | R |
| They glibly talked of Rabby | S |
| But what if he had come to them | T |
| Without a groat and shabby | S |
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| They drank and wept for Robbie s sake | U |
| They stood and brayed like asses | V |
| The living bard s a drunken rake | U |
| The dead one loved the lasses | V |
| If Robbie Burns were here they d sit | W |
| As still as any mouse is | V |
| If Robbie Burns should come their way | X |
| They d turn him out their houses | V |
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| Oh weep for bonny Scotland s bard | R |
| And praise the Scottish nation | Q |
| Who made him spy and let him die | Y |
| Heart broken in privation | Q |
| Exciseman so that he might live | Z |
| Through northern winters rigours | V |
| Just as in southern lands they give | A2 |
| The hard up rhymer figures | V |
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| We need some songs of stinging fun | Q |
| To wake the States and light em | T |
| I wish a man like Robert Burns | V |
| Were here to day to write em | T |
| But still the mockery shall survive | Z |
| Till the Day o Judgment crashes | V |
| The men we scorn when we re alive | Z |
| With praise insult our ashes | V |
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| And Scotty s ghost said Never mind | B2 |
| The fleas that you inherit | C2 |
| The living bard can flick them off | D2 |
| They cannot hurt his spirit | C2 |
| The crawlers round the bardie s name | E2 |
| Shall crawl through all the ages | V |
| His work s the living thing and they | X |
| Are fly dirt on the pages | V |
Henry Lawson
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