A Literature Lesson. Sir Patrick Spens In The Eighteenth Century Manner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEE FFGGHHIIJJBBKK A LLMMNN| VERSE I | A |
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| In a famed town of Caledonia's land | B |
| A prosperous port contiguous to the strand | B |
| A monarch feasted in right royal state | C |
| But care still dogs the pleasures of the Great | C |
| And well his faithful servants could surmise | D |
| From his distracted looks and broken sighs | D |
| That though the purple bowl was circling free | E |
| His mind was prey to black perplexity | E |
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| At last while others thoughtless joys invoke | F |
| Fierce from his breast the laboured utterance broke | F |
| Alas he cried and what to me the gain | G |
| Though I am king of all this fair domain | G |
| Though Ceres minister her plenteous hoard | H |
| And Bacchus with his bounty crowns my board | H |
| If Neptune still reluctant to obey | I |
| Neglects my sceptre and denies my sway | I |
| On a far mission must my vessels urge | J |
| Their course impetuous o'er the boiling surge | J |
| But who shall guide them with a dextrous hand | B |
| And bring them safely to that distant land | B |
| Whose skill shall dare the perils of the deep | K |
| And beard the Sea god in his stormy keep | K |
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| VERSE II | A |
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| He spake and straightway rising from his side | L |
| An ancient senator of reverend pride | L |
| Unsealed his lips and uttered from his soul | M |
| Great store of flatulence and rigmarole | M |
| All fled the Court which shades of night invest | N |
| And Pope and Gay and Prior told the rest | N |
Sir Walter Raleigh
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