Sunlight On The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA B CDCDEFEDGHGH IDIDIJIJCHCH IDIDIKIKLHLH MDMDNIKICHCH IDIDMIMIIMIM IDIDMOM IMIM CDCDMIMIDMDM MDMDPMPMDMDMA | |
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The Philosophy of a Feast | B |
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Make merry comrades eat and drink | C |
The sunlight flickers on the sea | D |
The garlands gleam the glasses clink | C |
The grape juice mantles fair and free | D |
The lamps are trimm'd although the light | E |
Of day still lingers on the sky | F |
We sit between the day and night | E |
And push the wine flask merrily | D |
I see you feasting round me still | G |
All gay of heart and strong of limb | H |
Make merry friends your glasses fill | G |
The lights are growing dim | H |
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I miss the voice of one I've heard | I |
The sunlight sinks upon the sea | D |
He sang as blythe as any bird | I |
And shook the rafters with his glee | D |
But times have changed with him I wot | I |
By fickle fortune cross'd and flung | J |
Far stouter heart than mine he's got | I |
If now he sings as then he sung | J |
Yet some must swim when others sink | C |
And some must sink when others swim | H |
Make merry comrades eat and drink | C |
The lights are growing dim | H |
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I miss the face of one I've loved | I |
The sunlight settles on the sea | D |
Long since to distant climes he roved | I |
He had his faults and so have we | D |
His name was mentioned here this day | I |
And it was coupled with a sneer | K |
I heard nor had I aught to say | I |
Though once I held his memory dear | K |
Who cares 'mid wines and fruits and flowers | L |
Though death or danger compass him | H |
He had his faults and we have ours | L |
The lights are growing dim | H |
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I miss the form of one I know | M |
The sunlight wanes upon the sea | D |
'Tis not so very long ago | M |
We drank his health with three times three | D |
And we were gay when he was here | N |
And he is gone and we are gay | I |
Where has he gone or far or near | K |
Good sooth 'twere somewhat hard to say | I |
You glance aside you doubtless think | C |
My homily a foolish whim | H |
'Twill soon be ended eat and drink | C |
The lights are growing dim | H |
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The fruit is ripe the wine is red | I |
The sunlight fades upon the sea | D |
To us the absent are the dead | I |
The dead to us must absent be | D |
We too the absent ranks must joinn | M |
And friends will censure and forget | I |
There's metal base in every coin | M |
Men vanish leaving traces yet | I |
Of evil and of good behind | I |
Since false notes taint the skylark's hymn | M |
And dross still lurks in gold refined | I |
The lights are growing dim | M |
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We eat and drink or ere we die | I |
The sunlight flushes on the sea | D |
Three hundred soldiers feasted high | I |
An hour before Thermopylae | D |
Leonidas pour'd out the wine | M |
And shouted ere he drain'd the cup | O |
'Ho comrades let us gaily dine | M |
This night with Pluto we shall sup ' | - |
And if they leant upon a reed | I |
And if their reed was slight and slim | M |
There's something good in Spartan creed | I |
The lights are growing dim | M |
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Make merry comrades eat and drink | C |
The sunlight flashes on the sea | D |
My spirit is rejoiced to think | C |
That even as they were so are we | D |
For they like us were mortals vain | M |
The slaves to earthly passions wild | I |
Who slept with heaps of Persians slain | M |
For winding sheets around them piled | I |
The dead man's deeds are living still | D |
My Festive speech is somewhat grim | M |
Their good obliterates their ill | D |
The lights are growing dim | M |
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We eat and drink we come and go | M |
The sunlight dies upon the open sea | D |
I speak in riddles Is it so | M |
My riddles need not mar your glee | D |
For I will neither bid you share | P |
My thoughts nor will I bid you shun | M |
Though I should see in yonder chair | P |
Th' Egyptian's muffled skeleton | M |
One toast with me your glasses fill | D |
Aye fill them level with the brim | M |
De mortuis nisi bonum nil | D |
The lights are growing dim | M |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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