The Drunkard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD ECEFCCGG CHCIJJKK CCCCBLCC MNMOPPCC| Disease was lurking in the cup | A |
| Disastrous folly mantling there | B |
| For promised joys he quaffed it up | A |
| And his were ruin and despair | B |
| Yes so deceived he tasted first | C |
| And fashion the delusion nurst | C |
| Till with the texture of his life | D |
| It wove a warp of madness agony and strife | D |
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| The festive bowl to that he owes | E |
| Those drops of shame which now bedew | C |
| His burning brows the hell of woes | E |
| His haggard spirit rushing through | F |
| Young innocent he took the road | C |
| That leads to honor s bright abode | C |
| But joined unwarned upon the way | G |
| A bacchanalian troop there stationed to betray | G |
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| Oh could he but recall the past | C |
| Oh could he be what he had been | H |
| The pearls of mental promise cast | C |
| Away for riot s joys obscene | I |
| Could he reclaim and knew his soul | J |
| To execrate as now the bowl | J |
| That voice which sang to his brave youth | K |
| High hopes and glorious aims were still a voice of truth | K |
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| Oh what like self contempt can blast | C |
| The lofty hope the wish refined | C |
| In bitter mockery at the last | C |
| Infirmity of noble mind | C |
| It laughs a laugh in which despair | B |
| And wild defiance mingled are | L |
| And not even madness can exempt | C |
| The votary of the bowl from grinning self contempt | C |
| - | |
| Yet could he but forbear to raise | M |
| The hellward hastening draught again | N |
| Time yet might quench the lurid blaze | M |
| The fiery serpent in his brain | O |
| Friendship might take his hand once more | P |
| Fond love caress him as before | P |
| And gentle peace and comfort mild | C |
| Smile on his future years as on his youth they smiled | C |
Charles Harpur
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