On With The Dance! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAADDEEFFFGHAA IIJJEEEEEEKKFFDD| Hi Cockalorum But Misery me | A |
| What is the aftermath going to be | A |
| With joy at its zenith and sorrow its least | B |
| I am the skeleton come to the feast | B |
| Now the centenary swells over all | C |
| I am the writing aglow on the wall | C |
| Eat drink and make merry Eat drink and make merry | A |
| Hip hip Cockahoop And alack a day derry | A |
| I am the spoil sport a gnawing his nails | D |
| Boding disaster when merriment fails | D |
| Dance little lady oh dance while you may | E |
| Shout ye good gentlemen Merry's the day | E |
| Sorrow is looming | F |
| Hear the far booming | F |
| The ghouls and the ghosts are a groaning and glooming | F |
| Today for the dancing the love and the laughter | G |
| But what of the morning after Aye | H |
| Happy go lucky But Misery me | A |
| What is the aftermath going to be | A |
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| Away with the skeleton Deep in his grave | I |
| Ram him and cram him and make him behave | I |
| We are the merry men born of the sun | J |
| And this second century fitly begun | J |
| Shall never mark back to follies of eld | E |
| To ills and to errors past centuries held | E |
| This is our century shining and splendid | E |
| When spectres are banished and ill dreams are ended | E |
| Never false fear as of old shall bedim it | E |
| There isn't an ending there isn't a limit | E |
| To joy in our gifts that are rained from above | K |
| There isn't a finish to friendship and love | K |
| Love of good laughter good friends and good living | F |
| There isn't an end to the gain from free giving | F |
| A fig for the pessimist moaning mumchance | D |
| There isn't an aftermath On with the dance | D |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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