A Glass Of Wine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDCDEFGAHHH IIJKCKK EL CMCME| 'What's in a glass of wine ' | A |
| There set the glass where I can look within | B |
| Now listen to me friend while I begin | B |
| And tell you what I see | C |
| What I behold with my far reaching eyes | D |
| And what I know to be | C |
| Below the laughing bubbles that arise | D |
| Within this glass of wine | E |
| There is a little spirit night and day | F |
| That cries one word for ever and alway | G |
| That single word is 'More ' | A |
| And whoso drinks a glass of wine drinks him | H |
| You fill the goblet full unto the brim | H |
| And strive to silence him | H |
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| Glass after glass you drain to quench his thirst | I |
| Each glass contains a spirit like the first | I |
| And all their voices cry | J |
| Until they shriek and clamor howl and rave | K |
| And shout 'More ' noisily | C |
| Till welcome death prepares the drunkard's grave | K |
| And stills the imps that rave | K |
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| That see I in the wine | E |
| And tears so many that I cannot guess | L |
| And all these drops are labelled with 'Distress ' | - |
| I know you cannot see | C |
| And at the bottom are the dregs of shame | M |
| Oh it is plain to me | C |
| And there are woes too terrible to name | M |
| Now drink your glass of wine | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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