No Churchman Am I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEB FGBB HHBB IJKK LLBB HDBB| NO churchman am I for to rail and to write | A |
| No statesman nor soldier to plot or to fight | A |
| No sly man of business contriving a snare | B |
| For a big belly'd bottle's the whole of my care | B |
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| The peer I don't envy I give him his bow | C |
| I scorn not the peasant though ever so low | D |
| But a club of good fellows like those that are here | E |
| And a bottle like this are my glory and care | B |
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| Here passes the squire on his brother his horse | F |
| There centum per centum the cit with his purse | G |
| But see you the Crown how it waves in the air | B |
| There a big belly'd bottle still eases my care | B |
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| The wife of my bosom alas she did die | H |
| for sweet consolation to church I did fly | H |
| I found that old Solomon proved it fair | B |
| That a big belly'd bottle's a cure for all care | B |
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| I once was persuaded a venture to make | I |
| A letter inform'd me that all was to wreck | J |
| But the pursy old landlord just waddl'd upstairs | K |
| With a glorious bottle that ended my cares | K |
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| Life's cares they are comforts a maxim laid down | L |
| By the Bard what d'ye call him that wore the black gown | L |
| And faith I agree with th' old prig to a hair | B |
| For a big belly'd bottle's a heav'n of a care | B |
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| A STANZA ADDED IN A MASON LODGEThen fill up a bumper and make it o'erflow | H |
| And honours masonic prepare for to throw | D |
| May ev'ry true Brother of the Compass and Square | B |
| Have a big belly'd bottle when harass'd with care | B |
Robert Burns
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