Pegasus At Wanlockhead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHI IDID| WITH Pegasus upon a day | A |
| Apollo weary flying | B |
| Through frosty hills the journey lay | A |
| On foot the way was plying | B |
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| Poor slipshod giddy Pegasus | C |
| Was but a sorry walker | D |
| To Vulcan then Apollo goes | E |
| To get a frosty caulker | D |
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| Obliging Vulcan fell to work | F |
| Threw by his coat and bonnet | G |
| And did Sol's business in a crack | H |
| Sol paid him with a sonnet | I |
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| Ye Vulcan's sons of Wanlockhead | I |
| Pity my sad disaster | D |
| My Pegasus is poorly shod | I |
| I'll pay you like my master | D |
Robert Burns
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