Andrew M-crie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABACDB EBFCCB GBHCIBJB KBLBCC MBBMBNB O PBQQBB| from the unpublished remains of Edgar Allan Poe | A |
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| It was many and many a year ago | A |
| In a city by the sea | B |
| That a man there lived whom I happened to know | A |
| By the name of Andrew M'Crie | C |
| And this man he slept in another room | D |
| But ground and had meals with me | B |
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| I was an ass and he was an ass | E |
| In this city by the sea | B |
| But we ground in a way which was more than a grind | F |
| I and Andrew M'Crie | C |
| In a way that the idle semis next door | C |
| Declared was shameful to see | B |
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| And this was the reason that one dark night | G |
| In this city by the sea | B |
| A stone flew in at the window hitting | H |
| The milk jug and Andrew M'Crie | C |
| And once some low bred tertians came | I |
| And bore him away from me | B |
| And shoved him into a private house | J |
| Where the people were having tea | B |
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| Professors not half so well up in their work | K |
| Went envying him and me | B |
| Yes that was the reason I always thought | L |
| And Andrew agreed with me | B |
| Why they ploughed us both at the end of the year | C |
| Chilling and killing poor Andrew M'Crie | C |
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| But his ghost is more terrible far than the ghosts | M |
| Of many more famous than he | B |
| Of many more gory than he | B |
| And neither visits to foreign coasts | M |
| Nor tonics can ever set free | B |
| Two well known Profs from the haunting wraith | N |
| Of the injured Andrew M'Crie | B |
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| For at night as they dream they frequently scream | O |
| 'Have mercy Mr M'Crie ' | - |
| And at morn they will rise with bloodshot eyes | P |
| And the very first thing they will see | B |
| When they dare to descend to their coffee and rolls | Q |
| Sitting down by the scuttle the scuttle of coals | Q |
| With a volume of notes on its knee | B |
| Is the spectre of Andrew M'Crie | B |
Robert Fuller Murray
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