Der Mann Im Keller Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDCEEC FFCGGCHCIC JKLKMMCNNC| How cool and fair this cellar where | A |
| My throne a dusky cask is | B |
| To do no thing but just to sing | C |
| And drown the time my task is | B |
| The cooper he's | D |
| Resolved to please | D |
| And answering to my winking | C |
| He fills me up | E |
| Cup after cup | E |
| For drinking drinking drinking | C |
| - | |
| Begrudge me not | F |
| This cosy spot | F |
| In which I am reclining | C |
| Why who would burst | G |
| With envious thirst | G |
| When he can live by wining | C |
| A roseate hue seems to imbue | H |
| The world on which I'm blinking | C |
| My fellow men I love them when | I |
| I'm drinking drinking drinking | C |
| - | |
| And yet I think the more I drink | J |
| It's more and more I pine for | K |
| Oh such as I forever dry | L |
| God made this land of Rhine for | K |
| And there is bliss | M |
| In knowing this | M |
| As to the floor I'm sinking | C |
| I've wronged no man | N |
| And never can | N |
| While drinking drinking drinking | C |
Eugene Field
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