To A Lady With An Unruly And Ill-mannered Dog Who Bit Several Persons Of Importance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JKJK L| Your dog is not a dog of grace | A |
| He does not wag the tail or beg | B |
| He bit Miss Dickson in the face | A |
| He bit a Bailie in the leg | B |
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| What tragic choices such a dog | C |
| Presents to visitor or friend | D |
| Outside there is the Glasgow fog | E |
| Within a hydrophobic end | D |
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| Yet some relief even terror brings | F |
| For when our life is cold and gray | G |
| We waste our strength on little things | F |
| And fret our puny souls away | G |
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| A snarl A scruffle round the room | H |
| A sense that Death is drawing near | I |
| And human creatures reassume | H |
| The elemental robe of fear | I |
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| So when my colleague makes his moan | J |
| Of careless cooks and warts and debt | K |
| Enlarge his views restore his tone | J |
| And introduce him to your Pet | K |
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| Quod Raleigh | L |
Sir Walter Raleigh
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