Elegy On The Year 1788 A Sketch. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGAAHHGGBB AAAA IIJJAAKKHHAAA L| For Lords or Kings I dinna mourn | A |
| E'en let them die for that they're born | A |
| But oh prodigious to reflec' | B |
| A Towmont Sirs is gane to wreck | B |
| O Eighty eight in thy sma' space | C |
| What dire events ha'e taken place | C |
| Of what enjoyments thou hast reft us | D |
| In what a pickle thou hast left us | D |
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| The Spanish empire's tint a head | E |
| An' my auld toothless Bawtie's dead | E |
| The tulzie's sair 'tween Pitt and Fox | F |
| And our guid wife's wee birdie cocks | F |
| The tane is game a bluidie devil | G |
| But to the hen birds unco civil | G |
| The tither's something dour o' treadin' | A |
| But better stuff ne'er claw'd a midden | A |
| Ye ministers come mount the pu'pit | H |
| An' cry till ye be hearse an' roupet | H |
| For Eighty eight he wish'd you weel | G |
| An' gied you a' baith gear an' meal | G |
| E'en mony a plack and mony a peck | B |
| Ye ken yoursels for little feck | B |
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| Ye bonnie lasses dight your e'en | A |
| For some o' you ha'e tint a frien' | A |
| In Eighty eight ye ken was ta'en | A |
| What ye'll ne'er ha'e to gie again | A |
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| Observe the very nowt an' sheep | I |
| How dowf and dowie now they creep | I |
| Nay even the yirth itsel' does cry | J |
| For Embro' wells are grutten dry | J |
| O Eighty nine thou's but a bairn | A |
| An' no owre auld I hope to learn | A |
| Thou beardless boy I pray tak' care | K |
| Thou now has got thy daddy's chair | K |
| Nae hand cuff'd mizl'd hap shackl'd Regent | H |
| But like himsel' a full free agent | H |
| Be sure ye follow out the plan | A |
| Nae waur than he did honest man | A |
| As muckle better as ye can | A |
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| January | L |
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