Nunc Te Bacche Canam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHEHE IJIJKLKL MGMGNONO GPGPKOKO GPGPQPQP RSRTUOUO VTVWXYXY WAWAWZWZ| 'Tis done Henceforth nor joy nor woe | A |
| Can make or mar my fate | B |
| I gaze around above below | A |
| And all is desolate | C |
| Go bid the shattered pine to bloom | D |
| The mourner to be merry | E |
| But bid no ray to cheer the tomb | D |
| In which my hopes I bury | E |
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| I never thought the world was fair | F |
| That 'Truth must reign victorious' | G |
| I knew that Honesty was rare | F |
| Wealth only meritorious | G |
| I knew that Women might deceive | H |
| And sometimes cared for money | E |
| That Lovers who in Love believe | H |
| Find gall as well as honey | E |
| - | |
| I knew that wondrous Classic lore | I |
| Meant something most pedantic | J |
| That Mathematics were a bore | I |
| And Morals un romantic | J |
| I knew my own beloved light blue | K |
| Might much improve their rowing | L |
| In fact I knew a thing or two | K |
| Decidedly worth knowing | L |
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| But thou Fool fool I thought that thou | M |
| At least wert something glorious | G |
| I saw thy polished ivory brow | M |
| And could not feel censorious | G |
| I thought I saw thee smile but that | N |
| Was all imagination | O |
| Upon the garden seat I sat | N |
| And gazed in adoration | O |
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| I plucked a newly budding rose | G |
| Our lips then met together | P |
| We spoke not but a lover knows | G |
| How lips two lives can tether | P |
| We parted I believed thee true | K |
| I asked for no love token | O |
| But now thy form no more I view | K |
| My Pipe my Pipe thou'rt broken | O |
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| Broken and when the Sun's warm rays | G |
| Illumine hill and heather | P |
| I think of all the pleasant days | G |
| We might have had together | P |
| When Lucifer's phosphoric beam | Q |
| Shines e'er the Lake's dim water | P |
| O then my Beautiful I dream | Q |
| Of thee the salt sea's daughter | P |
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| O why did Death thy beauty snatch | R |
| And leave me lone and blighted | S |
| Before the Hymeneal match | R |
| Our young loves had united | T |
| I knew thou wert not made of clay | U |
| I loved thee with devotion | O |
| Soft emanation of the spray | U |
| Bright foam born child of Ocean | O |
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| One night I saw an unknown star | V |
| Methought it gently nodded | T |
| I saw or seemed to see afar | V |
| Thy spirit disembodied | W |
| Cleansed from the stain of smoke and oil | X |
| My tears it bade me wipe | Y |
| And there relieved from earthly toil | X |
| I saw my Meerschaum pipe | Y |
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| Men offer me the noisome weed | W |
| But nought can calm my sorrow | A |
| Nor joy nor misery I heed | W |
| I care not for the morrow | A |
| Pipeless and friendless tempest tost | W |
| I fade I faint I languish | Z |
| He only who has loved and lost | W |
| Can measure all my anguish | Z |
Edward Woodley Bowling
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