The Old Armchair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEEC FFFGHHHG BBAIJJKI LLLMNNNM| In all the pubs from Troon to Ayr | A |
| Grandfather's father would repair | B |
| With Bobby Burns a drouthy pair | B |
| The glass to clink | C |
| And oftenwhiles when not too fou | D |
| They'd roar a bawdy stave or two | E |
| From midnight muk to morning dew | E |
| And drink and drink | C |
| - | |
| And Grandfather with eye aglow | F |
| And proper pride would often show | F |
| An old armchair where long ago | F |
| The Bard would sit | G |
| Reciting there with pawky glee | H |
| The Lass that Made the Bed for Me | H |
| Or whiles a rhyme about the flea | H |
| That ne'er was writ | G |
| - | |
| Then I would seek the Poet's chair | B |
| And plant my kilted buttocks there | B |
| And read with joy the Bard of Ayr | A |
| In my own tongue | I |
| The Diel the Daisy and the Louse | J |
| The Hare the Haggis and the Mouse | J |
| What fornication and carouse | K |
| When I was young | I |
| - | |
| Though Kipling Hardy Stevenson | L |
| Have each my admiration won | L |
| Today my rhyme race almost run | L |
| My fancy turns | M |
| To him who did Pegasus prod | N |
| For me Bard of my native sod | N |
| The sinner best loved of God | N |
| Rare Robbie Burns | M |
Robert Service
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