To The Commissioners Of Northern Lights Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAB AAACAC DDDCDC BBBABE FFFGFG| I SEND to you commissioners | A |
| A paper that may please ye sirs | A |
| For troth they say it might be worse | A |
| An' I believe't | B |
| And on your business lay my curse | A |
| Before I leav't | B |
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| I thocht I'd serve wi' you sirs yince | A |
| But I've thocht better of it since | A |
| The maitter I will nowise mince | A |
| But tell ye true | C |
| I'll service wi' some ither prince | A |
| An' no wi' you | C |
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| I've no been very deep ye'll think | D |
| Cam' delicately to the brink | D |
| An' when the water gart me shrink | D |
| Straucht took the rue | C |
| An' didna stoop my fill to drink | D |
| I own it true | C |
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| I kent on cape and isle a light | B |
| Burnt fair an' clearly ilka night | B |
| But at the service I took fright | B |
| As sune's I saw | A |
| An' being still a neophite | B |
| Gaed straucht awa' | E |
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| Anither course I now begin | F |
| The weeg I'll cairry for my sin | F |
| The court my voice shall echo in | F |
| An' wha can tell | G |
| Some ither day I may be yin | F |
| O' you mysel' | G |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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