Lines On Meeting With Lord Daer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGGF FFHIJK LLKMMK NNFOOF KKPOOF FFQRRR| THIS wot ye all whom it concerns | A |
| I Rhymer Robin alias Burns | A |
| October twenty third | B |
| A ne'er to be forgotten day | C |
| Sae far I sprackl'd up the brae | C |
| I dinner'd wi' a Lord | D |
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| I've been at drucken writers' feasts | E |
| Nay been bitch fou 'mang godly priests | E |
| Wi' rev'rence be it spoken | F |
| I've even join'd the honour'd jorum | G |
| When mighty Squireships of the quorum | G |
| Their hydra drouth did sloken | F |
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| But wi' a Lord stand out my shin | F |
| A Lord a Peer an Earl's son | F |
| Up higher yet my bonnet | H |
| An' sic a Lord lang Scoth ells twa | I |
| Our Peerage he o'erlooks them a' | J |
| As I look o'er my sonnet | K |
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| But O for Hogarth's magic pow'r | L |
| To show Sir Bardie's willyart glow'r | L |
| An' how he star'd and stammer'd | K |
| When goavin as if led wi' branks | M |
| An' stumpin on his ploughman shanks | M |
| He in the parlour hammer'd | K |
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| I sidying shelter'd in a nook | N |
| An' at his Lordship steal't a look | N |
| Like some portentous omen | F |
| Except good sense and social glee | O |
| An' what surpris'd me modesty | O |
| I mark d nought uncommon | F |
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| I watch'd the symptoms o' the Great | K |
| The gentle pride the lordly state | K |
| The arrogant assuming | P |
| The fient a pride nae pride had he | O |
| Nor sauce nor state that I could see | O |
| Mair than an honest ploughman | F |
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| Then from his Lordship I shall learn | F |
| Henceforth to meet with unconcern | F |
| One rank as weel's another | Q |
| Nae honest worthy man need care | R |
| To meet with noble youthful Daer | R |
| For he but meets a brother | R |
Robert Burns
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