Drinking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKKK| The thirsty earth soaks up the rain | A |
| And drinks and gapes for drink again | B |
| The plants suck in the earth and are | C |
| With constant drinking fresh and fair | D |
| The sea itself which one would think | E |
| Should have but little need of drink | E |
| Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up | F |
| So fill'd that they o'erflow the cup | F |
| The busy Sun and one would guess | G |
| By 's drunken fiery face no less | G |
| Drinks up the sea and when he's done | H |
| The Moon and Stars drink up the Sun | H |
| They drink and dance by their own light | I |
| They drink and revel all the night | I |
| Nothing in Nature's sober found | J |
| But an eternal health goes round | J |
| Fill up the bowl then fill it high | K |
| Fill all the glasses there for why | K |
| Should every creature drink but I | K |
| Why man of morals tell me why | K |
Abraham Cowley
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