A Literature Lesson. Sir Patrick Spens In The Eighteenth Century Manner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEE FFGGHHIIJJBBKK A LLMMNNVERSE 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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