GeoffC - Great writing! I love your different rhyme schemes. AAB-CCB-DDB. Very nice. Have you ever tried your hand at a villanelle?
PS, I see ye are from Scotland. Have ye ever, by chanced, met the Poet McTeagle?
"Oh gi'e to me a shillin' for some fags and I'll pay ye back on Thursday, but if you wait till Saturday I'm expecting a divvy from the Harpenden Building Society"