To Charles Baxter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAAA AAAAAA CCCDEF AAAAAA AAGAAA AAAHAH AAAAAA IIIAIA AAAAAA AAAAAA JJJCJC AAACAC JJJAJAOUR Johnie's deid The mair's the pity | A |
He's deid an' deid o' Aqua vitae | B |
O Embro' you're a shrunken city | A |
Noo Johnie's deid | A |
Tak hands an' sing a burial ditty | A |
Ower Johnie's heid | A |
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To see him was baith drink an' meat | A |
Gaun linkin' glegly up the street | A |
He but to rin or tak a seat | A |
The wee bit body | A |
Bein' aye unsicken on his feet | A |
Wi' whusky toddy | A |
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To be aye tosh was Johnie's whim | C |
There's nane was better teut than him | C |
Though whiles his gravit knot wad clim' | C |
Ahint his ear | D |
An' whiles he'd buttons oot or in | E |
The less ae mair | F |
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His hair a' lang about his bree | A |
His tap lip lang by inches three | A |
A slockened sort 'mon ' to pree | A |
A' sensuality | A |
A droutly glint was in his e'e | A |
An' personality | A |
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An' day an' nicht frae daw to daw | A |
Dink an' perjink an' doucely braw | A |
Wi' a kind o' Gospel ower a' | G |
May or October | A |
Like Peden followin' the Law | A |
An' no that sober | A |
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Whusky an' he were pack thegether | A |
Whate'er the hour whate'er the weather | A |
John kept himsel' wi' mistened leather | A |
An' kindled spunk | H |
Wi' him there was nae askin' whether | A |
John was aye drunk | H |
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The auncient heroes gash an' bauld | A |
In the uncanny days of auld | A |
The task ance fo u nd to which th'were called | A |
Stack stenchly to it | A |
His life sic noble lives recalled | A |
Little's he knew it | A |
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Single an' straucht he went his way | I |
He kept the faith an' played the play | I |
Whusky an' he were man an' may | I |
Whate'er betided | A |
Bonny in life in death this twae | I |
Were no' divided | A |
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An' wow but John was unco sport | A |
Whiles he wad smile about the Court | A |
Malvolio like whiles snore an' snort | A |
Was heard afar | A |
The idle winter lads' resort | A |
Was aye John's bar | A |
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What's merely humorous or bonny | A |
The Worl' regairds wi' cauld astony | A |
Drunk men tak' aye mair place than ony | A |
An' sae ye see | A |
The gate was aye ower thrang for Johnie | A |
Or you an' me | A |
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John micht hae jingled cap an' bells | J |
Been a braw fule in silks an' pells | J |
In ane o' the auld worl's canty hells | J |
Paris or Sodom | C |
I wadnae had him naething else | J |
But Johnie Adam | C |
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He suffered as have a' that wan | A |
Eternal memory frae man | A |
Since e'er the weary worl' began | A |
Mister or Madam | C |
Keats or Scots Burns the Spanish Don | A |
Or Johnie Adam | C |
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We leuch an' Johnie deid An' fegs | J |
Hoo he had keept his stoiterin' legs | J |
Sae lang's he did's a fact that begs | J |
An explanation | A |
He stachers fifty years syne plegs | J |
To's destination | A |
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