Wine And Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABC DDDDB EEEEBBOld Noah he had an ostrich farm and fowls on the largest scale | A |
He ate his egg with a ladle in a egg cup big as a pail | A |
And the soup he took was Elephant Soup and the fish he took was Whale | A |
But they all were small to the cellar he took when he set out to sail | A |
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine | B |
'I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine ' | C |
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The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding off the brink | D |
As if it would wash the stars away as suds go down a sink | D |
The seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink | D |
And Noah he cocked his eye and said 'It looks like rain I think | D |
The water has drowned the Matterhorn as deep as a Mendip mine | B |
But I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine ' | - |
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But Noah he sinned and we have sinned on tipsy feet we trod | E |
Till a great big black teetotaller was sent to us for a rod | E |
And you can't get wine at a P S A or chapel or Eisteddfod | E |
For the Curse of Water has come again because of the wrath of God | E |
And water is on the Bishop's board and the Higher Thinker's shrine | B |
But I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine | B |
G. K. Chesterton
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