Epistle To Hugh Parker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDDEEBBBBBBFF BBGHFFIIHHHHBBJJKKFF LLEE| IN this strange land this uncouth clime | A |
| A land unknown to prose or rhyme | A |
| Where words ne'er cross't the Muse's heckles | B |
| Nor limpit in poetic shackles | B |
| A land that Prose did never view it | C |
| Except when drunk he stacher't thro' it | C |
| Here ambush'd by the chimla cheek | D |
| Hid in an atmosphere of reek | D |
| I hear a wheel thrum i' the neuk | D |
| I hear it for in vain I leuk | D |
| The red peat gleams a fiery kernel | E |
| Enhusk d by a fog infernal | E |
| Here for my wonted rhyming raptures | B |
| I sit and count my sins by chapters | B |
| For life and spunk like ither Christians | B |
| I'm dwindled down to mere existence | B |
| Wi' nae converse but Gallowa' bodies | B |
| Wi' nae kenn'd face but Jenny Geddes | B |
| Jenny my Pegasean pride | F |
| Dowie she saunters down Nithside | F |
| And aye a westlin leuk she throws | B |
| While tears hap o'er her auld brown nose | B |
| Was it for this wi' cannie care | G |
| Thou bure the Bard through many a shire | H |
| At howes or hillocks never stumbled | F |
| And late or early never grumbled | F |
| O had I power like inclination | I |
| I'd heeze thee up a constellation | I |
| To canter with the Sagitarre | H |
| Or loup the ecliptic like a bar | H |
| Or turn the pole like any arrow | H |
| Or when auld Phoebus bids good morrow | H |
| Down the zodiac urge the race | B |
| And cast dirt on his godship's face | B |
| For I could lay my bread and kail | J |
| He'd ne'er cast saut upo' thy tail | J |
| Wi' a' this care and a' this grief | K |
| And sma' sma' prospect of relief | K |
| And nought but peat reek i' my head | F |
| How can I write what ye can read | F |
| Tarbolton twenty fourth o' June | L |
| Ye'll find me in a better tune | L |
| But till we meet and weet our whistle | E |
| Tak this excuse for nae epistle | E |
Robert Burns
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