A Rhine-land Drinking Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAABBB DBEDDBBB BBFGGBBB| If our own life is the life of a flower | A |
| And that's what some sages are thinking | B |
| We should moisten the bud with a health giving flood | C |
| And 'twill bloom all the sweeter | A |
| Yes life's the completer | A |
| For drinking | B |
| and drinking | B |
| and drinking | B |
| - | |
| If it be that our life is a journey | D |
| As many wise folk are opining | B |
| We should sprinkle the way with the rain while we may | E |
| Though dusty and dreary | D |
| 'Tis made cool and cheery | D |
| With wining | B |
| and wining | B |
| and wining | B |
| - | |
| If this life that we live be a dreaming | B |
| As pessimist people are thinking | B |
| To induce pleasant dreams there is nothing meseems | F |
| Like this sweet prescription | G |
| That baffles description | G |
| This drinking | B |
| and drinking | B |
| and drinking | B |
Eugene Field
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