The Cure For All Care. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A BBCC A DEFC A GHCC I AACC I JKLL A MMCC A N AECC| Tune Prepare my dear brethren to the tavern let's fly | A |
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| I | A |
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| No churchman am I for to rail and to write | B |
| No statesman nor soldier to plot or to fight | B |
| No sly man of business contriving to snare | C |
| For a big bellied bottle's the whole of my care | C |
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| II | A |
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| The peer I don't envy I give him his bow | D |
| I scorn not the peasant tho' ever so low | E |
| But a club of good fellows like those that are here | F |
| And a bottle like this are my glory and care | C |
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| III | A |
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| Here passes the squire on his brother his horse | G |
| There centum per centum the cit with his purse | H |
| But see you The Crown how it waves in the air | C |
| There a big bellied bottle still eases my care | C |
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| IV | I |
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| The wife of my bosom alas she did die | A |
| For sweet consolation to church I did fly | A |
| I found that old Solomon proved it fair | C |
| That a big bellied bottle's a cure for all care | C |
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| V | I |
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| I once was persuaded a venture to make | J |
| A letter inform'd me that all was to wreck | K |
| But the pursy old landlord just waddled up stairs | L |
| With a glorious bottle that ended my cares | L |
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| VI | A |
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| Life's cares they are comforts a maxim laid down | M |
| By the bard what d'ye call him that wore the black gown | M |
| And faith I agree with th' old prig to a hair | C |
| For a big bellied bottle's a heav'n of care | C |
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| VII | A |
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| Added In A Mason Lodge | N |
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| Then fill up a bumper and make it o'erflow | A |
| The honours masonic prepare for to throw | E |
| May every true brother of the compass and square | C |
| Have a big bellied bottle when harass'd with care | C |
Robert Burns
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