From Omar Khayyam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCB DDED FFGF EEHE IIJI KKLK EEM| Rhymed from the prose version of Mr Justin Huntly M'Carthy | A |
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| The Paradise they bid us fast to win | B |
| Hath Wine and Women is it then a sin | B |
| To live as we shall live in Paradise | C |
| And make a Heaven of Earth ere Heaven begin | B |
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| The wise may search the world from end to end | D |
| From dusty nook to dusty nook my friend | D |
| And nothing better find than girls and wine | E |
| Of all the things they neither make nor mend | D |
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| Nay listen thou who walking on Life's way | F |
| Hast seen no lovelock of thy love's grow grey | F |
| Listen and love thy life and let the Wheel | G |
| Of Heaven go spinning its own wilful way | F |
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| Man is a flagon and his soul the wine | E |
| Man is a lamp wherein the Soul doth shine | E |
| Man is a shaken reed wherein that wind | H |
| The Soul doth ever rustle and repine | E |
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| Each morn I say to night I will repent | I |
| Repent and each night go the way I went | I |
| The way of Wine but now that reigns the rose | J |
| Lord of Repentance rage not but relent | I |
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| I wish to drink of wine so deep so deep | K |
| The scent of wine my sepulchre shall steep | K |
| And they the revellers by Omar's tomb | L |
| Shall breathe it and in Wine shall fall asleep | K |
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| Before the rent walls of a ruined town | E |
| Lay the King's skull whereby a bird flew down | E |
| 'And where ' he sang 'is all thy clash of arms | M |
| Where the sonorous trumps of thy renown ' | - |
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