The Lost Drink Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MNCNFOPO BQDQRSCSI had spent the night in the watch house | A |
My head was the size of three | B |
So I went and asked the chemist | C |
To fix up a drink for me | B |
And he brewed it from various bottles | D |
With soda and plenty of ice | E |
With something that smelt like lemon | F |
And something that seemed like spice | E |
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It fell on my parching palate | G |
Like the dew on a sunbaked plain | H |
And my system began to flourish | I |
Like the grass in the soft spring rain | H |
It wandered throughout my being | J |
Suffusing my soul with rest | K |
And I felt as I scoffed that liquid | L |
That life had a new found zest | K |
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I have been on the razzle dazzle | M |
Full many a time since then | N |
But I never could get the chemist | C |
To brew me that drink again | N |
He says he's forgotten the notion | F |
'Twas only by chance it came | O |
He's tried me with various liquids | P |
But oh they are not the same | O |
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We have sought but we sought it vainly | B |
That one lost drink divine | Q |
We have sampled his various bottles | D |
But somehow they don't combine | Q |
Yet I know when I cross the River | R |
And stand on the Golden Shore | S |
I shall meet with an angel chemist | C |
To brew me that drink once more | S |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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