Mactavish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD BEBEFDGD CHCHIDID JKLKMDMD NONPNENE| I do not write for love of pelf | A |
| Nor lust for phantom fame | B |
| I do not rhyme to please myself | A |
| Nor yet to win acclaim | B |
| No strange to say it is my plan | C |
| What gifts I have to lavish | D |
| Upon a simple working man | C |
| MACTAVISH | D |
| - | |
| For that's the rather smeary name | B |
| Of dreary toil a hinter | E |
| That heads the galley proofs that came | B |
| This morning from my printer | E |
| My patient pencil much they need | F |
| Yet how my eyes they ravish | D |
| As at the top of each I read | G |
| MACTAVISH | D |
| - | |
| Who is the meek and modest man | C |
| Who puffs no doubt a pipe | H |
| And has my manuscript to scan | C |
| And put in magic type | H |
| Somehow I'm glad that he is not | I |
| Iberian or Slavish | D |
| I hail him as a brother Scot | I |
| MACTAVISH | D |
| - | |
| I do not want to bore him with | J |
| My work I make it snappy | K |
| For even though his name were Smith | L |
| I'd like him to be happy | K |
| I hope because I'm stumped for rhyme | M |
| He will not think me knavish | D |
| If I should call him just this time | M |
| MACTAVISH | D |
| - | |
| Forgive me Friend Mactavish I | N |
| No doubt have cost you curses | O |
| I'm sorry for you as you try | N |
| To put my type in verses | P |
| And though new names I know you by | N |
| When of new books creator | E |
| I'll always look on you as my | N |
| COLLABORATOR | E |
Robert Service
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