Poet And Peer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDAEEA FFGAAG BHIHHH JJKLLKThey asked the Bard of Ayr to dine | A |
The banquet hall was fit and fine | A |
With gracing it a Lord | B |
The poet came his face was grim | C |
To find the place reserved for him | C |
Was at the butler's board | B |
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So when the gentry called him in | D |
He entered with a knavish grin | D |
And sipped a glass of wine | A |
But when they asked would he recite | E |
Something of late he'd chanced to write | E |
He ettled to decline | A |
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Then with a sly sardonic look | F |
He opened up a little book | F |
Containing many a gem | G |
And as they sat in raiment fine | A |
So smug and soused with rosy wine | A |
This verse he read to them | G |
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'You see yon birkie caw'ed a Lord | B |
Who struts and stares an' a' that | H |
Though hundreds worship at his word | I |
He's but a coof for a' that | H |
For a' that and a' that | H |
A man's a man for a' that | H |
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He pointed at that portly Grace | J |
Who glared with apoplectic face | J |
While others stared with gloom | K |
Then having paid them all he owed | L |
Burns Bard of Homespun smiled and strode | L |
Superbly from the room | K |
Robert Service
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