Impromptu Lines To Captain Riddell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDAEEA DDECCE| YOUR News and Review sir | A |
| I've read through and through sir | A |
| With little admiring or blaming | B |
| The Papers are barren | C |
| Of home news or foreign | C |
| No murders or rapes worth the naming | B |
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| Our friends the Reviewers | D |
| Those chippers and hewers | D |
| Are judges of mortar and stone sir | A |
| But of meet or unmeet | E |
| In a fabric complete | E |
| I'll boldly pronounce they are none sir | A |
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| My goose quill too rude is | D |
| To tell all your goodness | D |
| Bestow'd on your servant the Poet | E |
| Would to God I had one | C |
| Like a beam of the sun | C |
| And then all the world sir should know it | E |
Robert Burns
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Impromptu Lines To Captain Riddell is a poem by Robert Burns. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.