Second Epistle To Davie, - A Brother Poet. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAAA BBBCBC DDDEDE FFFGFG HHHFHF IIIAIA AAAGAG GGGAGA| AULD NIBOR | A |
| I'm three times doubly o'er your debtor | A |
| For your auld farrent frien'ly letter | A |
| Tho' I maun say't I doubt ye flatter | A |
| Ye speak sae fair | A |
| For my puir silly rhymin clatter | A |
| Some less maun sair | A |
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| Hale be your heart hale be your fiddle | B |
| Lang may your elbuck jink and diddle | B |
| To cheer you thro' the weary widdle | B |
| O' war'ly cares | C |
| Till bairn's bairns kindly cuddle | B |
| Your auld gray hairs | C |
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| But Davie lad I'm red ye're glaikit | D |
| I'm tauld the Muse ye hae negleckit | D |
| An' gif it's sae ye sud be licket | D |
| Until yo fyke | E |
| Sic hauns as you sud ne'er be faiket | D |
| Be hain't who like | E |
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| For me I'm on Parnassus' brink | F |
| Rivin' the words to gar them clink | F |
| Whyles daez't wi' love whyles daez't wi' drink | F |
| Wi' jads or masons | G |
| An' whyles but ay owre late I think | F |
| Braw sober lessons | G |
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| Of a' the thoughtless sons o' man | H |
| Commen' me to the Bardie clan | H |
| Except it be some idle plan | H |
| O' rhymin' clink | F |
| The devil haet that I sud ban | H |
| They ever think | F |
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| Nae thought nae view nae scheme o' livin' | I |
| Nae cares to gie us joy or grievin' | I |
| But just the pouchie put the nieve in | I |
| An' while ought's there | A |
| Then hiltie skiltie we gae scrievin' | I |
| An' fash nae mair | A |
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| Leeze me on rhyme it's aye a treasure | A |
| My chief amaist my only pleasure | A |
| At hame a fiel' at work or leisure | A |
| The Muse poor hizzie | G |
| Tho' rough an' raploch be her measure | A |
| She's seldom lazy | G |
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| Haud to the Muse my dainty Davie | G |
| The warl' may play you monie a shavie | G |
| But for the Muse she'll never leave ye | G |
| Tho' e'er so puir | A |
| Na even tho' limpin' wi' the spavie | G |
| Frae door to door | A |
Robert Burns
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