Pipe And Can Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCD AEFD GGHD IIJD A KLKKL MJMMJ NONNO NNNNN HLHHL| I | A |
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| The Indian weed wither egrave d quite | B |
| Green at morn cut down at night | B |
| Shows thy decay all flesh is hay | C |
| Thus think then drink Tobacco | D |
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| And when the smoke ascends on high | A |
| Think thou behold'st the vanity | E |
| Of worldly stuff gone with a puff | F |
| Thus think then drink Tobacco | D |
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| But when the pipe grows foul within | G |
| Think of thy soul defiled with sin | G |
| And that the fire doth it require | H |
| Thus think then drink Tobacco | D |
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| The ashes that are left behind | I |
| May serve to put thee still in mind | I |
| That unto dust return thou must | J |
| Thus think then drink Tobacco | D |
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| II | A |
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| When as the chill Charokko blows | K |
| And Winter tells a heavy tale | L |
| When pyes and daws and rooks and crows | K |
| Sit cursing of the frosts and snows | K |
| Then give me ale | L |
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| Ale in a Saxon rumkin then | M |
| Such as will make grimalkin prate | J |
| Bids valour burgeon in tall men | M |
| Quickens the poet's wit and pen | M |
| Despises fate | J |
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| Ale that the absent battle fights | N |
| And frames the march of Swedish drum | O |
| Disputes with princes laws and rights | N |
| What 's done and past tells mortal wights | N |
| And what 's to come | O |
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| Ale that the plowman's heart up keeps | N |
| And equals it with tyrants' thrones | N |
| That wipes the eye that over weeps | N |
| And lulls in sure and dainty sleeps | N |
| Th' o'er wearied bones | N |
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| Grandchild of Ceres Bacchus' daughter | H |
| Wine's emulous neighbour though but stale | L |
| Ennobling all the nymphs of water | H |
| And filling each man's heart with laughter | H |
| Ha give me ale | L |
Anonymous
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