The Lost Drink Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHJKLK MNCNFOPO BQDQRSCS| I 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 |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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
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