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... of a hermit with the unceasing moil of a galley - slave ' , as Burns described it in his autobiographical letter – during this period ( although just before things began to get really bad ) he ' first committed the sin of RHYME ' .
... of a hermit with the unceasing moil of a galley - slave ' , as Burns described it in his autobiographical letter – during this period ( although just before things began to get really bad ) he ' first committed the sin of RHYME ' .
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Burns pauses for breath , as it were , and then moves into the letter proper : fermenting brain jerked Just now I've taen the fit o ' rhyme , My barmie noddle's working prime , My fancy yerkit up sublime Wi ' hasty summon : Hae ye a ...
Burns pauses for breath , as it were , and then moves into the letter proper : fermenting brain jerked Just now I've taen the fit o ' rhyme , My barmie noddle's working prime , My fancy yerkit up sublime Wi ' hasty summon : Hae ye a ...
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In the second pair of long lines he is describing himself ' spinning a verse or twa o'rhyme ' , and after the word ' rhyme ' comes the second short line , ' In hamely , westlin jingle ' , giving the very effect of rhyme by its ...
In the second pair of long lines he is describing himself ' spinning a verse or twa o'rhyme ' , and after the word ' rhyme ' comes the second short line , ' In hamely , westlin jingle ' , giving the very effect of rhyme by its ...
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