Skim-milk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFEDGG HIHIII DDDDEE| A small part only of my grief I write | A |
| And if I do not give you all the tale | B |
| It is because my gloom gets some respite | C |
| By just a small bewailing I bewail | B |
| That I with sly and stupid folk must bide | D |
| Who steal my food and ruin my inside | D |
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| Once I had books each book beyond compare | E |
| But now no book at all is left to me | F |
| And I am spied and peeped on everywhere | E |
| And my old head stuffed with latinity | D |
| And with the poet's load of grave and gay | G |
| Will not get me skim milk for half a day | G |
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| Wild horse or quiet not a horse have I | H |
| But to the forest every day I go | I |
| Bending beneath a load of wood that high | H |
| Which raises on my back a sorry row | I |
| Of raw red blisters so I cry alack | I |
| The rider that rides me will break my back | I |
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| Ossian when he was old and near his end | D |
| Met Patrick by good luck and he was stayed | D |
| I am a poet too and seek a friend | D |
| A prop a staff a comforter an aid | D |
| A Patrick who will lift me from despair | E |
| In Cormac Uasal Mac Donagh of the golden hair | E |
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