To Captain Riddel, Of Glenriddel. Extempore Lines On Returning A Newspaper. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BACA DBEB DFCG| Ellisland Monday Evening | A |
| - | |
| Your news and review Sir I've read through and through Sir | B |
| With little admiring or blaming | A |
| The papers are barren of home news or foreign | C |
| No murders or rapes worth the naming | A |
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| Our friends the reviewers those chippers and hewers | D |
| Are judges of mortar and stone Sir | B |
| But of meet or unmeet in a fabric complete | E |
| I'll boldly pronounce they are none Sir | B |
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| My goose quill too rude is to tell all your goodness | D |
| Bestow'd on your servant the Poet | F |
| Would to God I had one like a beam of the sun | C |
| And then all the world Sir should know it | G |
Robert Burns
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