Tragic Fragment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCDBEFGCBBHFGCICJ| All devil as I am a damned wretch | A |
| A hardened stubborn unrepenting villain | B |
| Still my heart melts at human wretchedness | C |
| And with sincere but unavailing sighs | C |
| I view the helpless children of distress | C |
| With tears indignant I behold the oppressor | D |
| Rejoicing in the honest man's destruction | B |
| Whose unsubmitting heart was all his crime | E |
| Ev'n you ye hapless crew I pity you | F |
| Ye whom the seeming good think sin to pity | G |
| Ye poor despised abandoned vagabonds | C |
| Whom Vice as usual has turn'd o'er to ruin | B |
| Oh but for friends and interposing Heaven | B |
| I had been driven forth like you forlorn | H |
| The most detested worthless wretch among you | F |
| O injured God Thy goodness has endow'd me | G |
| With talents passing most of my compeers | C |
| Which I in just proportion have abused | I |
| As far surpassing other common villains | C |
| As Thou in natural parts has given me more | J |
Robert Burns
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