Address To The Tooth-ache Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAC DDEFGF HHHIHI GGGGGJ HHHJHK HHHAHL| My curse upon your venom'd stang | A |
| That shoots my tortur'd gums alang | A |
| And thro' my lugs gies mony a twang | A |
| Wi' gnawing vengeance | B |
| Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang | A |
| Like racking engines | C |
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| When fevers burn or ague freezes | D |
| Rheumatics gnaw or cholic squeezes | D |
| Our neighbors' sympathy may ease us | E |
| Wi' pitying moan | F |
| But thee thou hell o' a' diseases | G |
| They mock our groan | F |
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| Adown my beard the slavers trickle | H |
| I throw the wee stools o'er the mickle | H |
| As round the fire the giglets keckle | H |
| To see me loup | I |
| While raving mad I wish a heckle | H |
| Were in their doup | I |
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| O' a' the num'rous human dools | G |
| Ill har'sts daft bargains cutty stools | G |
| Or worthy friends rak'd i' the mools | G |
| Sad sight to see | G |
| The tricks o' knaves or fash o' fools | G |
| Thou bear'st the gree | J |
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| Where'er that place be priests ca' hell | H |
| Whence a' the tones o' mis'ry yell | H |
| And rank d plagues their numbers tell | H |
| In dreadfu' raw | J |
| Thou Tooth ache surely bear'st the bell | H |
| Amang them a' | K |
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| O thou grim mischief making chiel | H |
| That gars the notes of discord squeel | H |
| Till daft mankiud aft dance a reel | H |
| In gore a shoe thick | A |
| Gie a' the foes o' Scotland's weal | H |
| A towmond's Tooth ache | L |
Robert Burns
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