Lines Inscribed Upon A Cup Formed From A Skull Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GDHD IAIA JKJKStart not nor deem my spirit fled | A |
In me behold the only skull | B |
From which unlike a living head | A |
Whatever flows is never dull | B |
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I lived I loved I quaffed like thee | C |
I died let earth my bones resign | D |
Fill up thou canst not injure me | C |
The worm hath fouler lips than thine | D |
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Better to hold the sparkling grape | E |
Than nurse the earthworm's slimy brood | F |
And circle in the goblet's shape | E |
The drink of gods than reptile's food | F |
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Where once my wit perchance hath shone | G |
In aid of others' let me shine | D |
And when alas our brains are gone | H |
What nobler substitute than wine | D |
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Quaff while thou canst another race | I |
When thou and thine like me are sped | A |
May rescue thee from earth's embrace | I |
And rhyme and revel with the dead | A |
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Why not since through life's little day | J |
Our heads such sad effects produce | K |
Redeemed from worms and wasting clay | J |
This chance is theirs to be of use | K |
George Gordon Byron
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