Frag2 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGFFHH| Tall as a guardsman pale as the east at dawn | A |
| Who strides in strange apparel on the lawn | A |
| Rails for his breakfast routs his vassals out | B |
| Like boys escaped from school with song and shout | B |
| Kind and unkind his Maker's final freak | C |
| Part we deride the child part dread the antique | C |
| See where his gang like frogs among the dew | D |
| Crouch at their duty an unquiet crew | D |
| Adjust their staring kilts and their swift eyes | E |
| Turn still to him who sits to supervise | E |
| He in the midst perched on a fallen tree | F |
| Eyes them at labour and guitar on knee | F |
| Now ministers alarm now scatters joy | G |
| Now twangs a halting chord now tweaks a boy | G |
| Thorough in all my resolute vizier | F |
| Plays both the despot and the volunteer | F |
| Exacts with fines obedience to my laws | H |
| And for his music too exacts applause | H |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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