Poet And Peer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDAEEA FFGAAG BHIHHH JJKLLK| They 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 William Service
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