Dum Vivimus Vigilemus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBBDDEE FFGGEEHHEEBB IIAAJJKKLLBB| TURN out more ale turn up the light | A |
| I will not go to bed to night | A |
| Of all the foes that man should dread | B |
| The first and worst one is a bed | B |
| Friends I have had both old and young | C |
| And ale we drank and songs we sung | C |
| Enough you know when this is said | B |
| That one and all they died in bed | B |
| In bed they died and I ll not go | D |
| Where all my friends have perished so | D |
| Go you who glad would buried be | E |
| But not to night a bed for me | E |
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| For me to night no bed prepare | F |
| But set me out my oaken chair | F |
| And bid no other guests beside | G |
| The ghosts that shall around me glide | G |
| In curling smoke wreaths I shall see | E |
| A fair and gentle company | E |
| Though silent all rare revellers they | H |
| Who leave you not till break of day | H |
| Go you who would not daylight see | E |
| But not to night a bed for me | E |
| For I ve been born and I ve been wed | B |
| All of man s peril comes of bed | B |
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| And I ll not seek whate er befall | I |
| Him who unbidden comes to all | I |
| A grewsome guest a lean jawed wight | A |
| God send he do not come to night | A |
| But if he do to claim his own | J |
| He shall not find me lying prone | J |
| But blithely bravely sitting up | K |
| And raising high the stirrup cup | K |
| Then if you find a pipe unfilled | L |
| An empty chair the brown ale spilled | L |
| Well may you know though naught be said | B |
| That I ve been borne away to bed | B |
Charles Harper Webb
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