The Joyful Widower. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABACDCD EAFAGAHA IAIAJAKA| Tune Maggy Lauder | A |
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| I | - |
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| I married with a scolding wife | B |
| The fourteenth of November | A |
| She made me weary of my life | B |
| By one unruly member | A |
| Long did I bear the heavy yoke | C |
| And many griefs attended | D |
| But to my comfort be it spoke | C |
| Now now her life is ended | D |
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| II | - |
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| We liv'd full one and twenty years | E |
| A man and wife together | A |
| At length from me her course she steer'd | F |
| And gone I know not whither | A |
| Would I could guess I do profess | G |
| I speak and do not flatter | A |
| Of all the woman in the world | H |
| I never could come at her | A |
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| III | - |
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| Her body is bestowed well | I |
| A handsome grave does hide her | A |
| But sure her soul is not in hell | I |
| The deil would ne'er abide her | A |
| I rather think she is aloft | J |
| And imitating thunder | A |
| For why methinks I hear her voice | K |
| Tearing the clouds asunder | A |
Robert Burns
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