The Sun Cup Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB ADEFFDE GHIGHJKK| The earth is the cup of the sun | A |
| That he filleth at morning with wine | B |
| With the warm strong wine of his might | C |
| From the vintage of gold and of light | C |
| Fills it and makes it divine | B |
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| And at night when his journey is done | A |
| At the gate of his radiant hall | D |
| He setteth his lips to the brim | E |
| With a long last look of his eye | F |
| And lifts it and draineth it dry | F |
| Drains till he leaveth it all | D |
| Empty and hollow and dim | E |
| - | |
| And then as he passes to sleep | G |
| Still full of the feats that he did | H |
| Long ago in Olympian wars | I |
| He closes it down with the sweep | G |
| Of its slow turning luminous lid | H |
| Its cover of darkness and stars | J |
| Wrought once by Hephaestus of old | K |
| With violet and vastness and gold | K |
Archibald Lampman
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