Lines Inscribed Upon A Cup Formed From A Skull Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEFGDHD IAIA JKJK| Start 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 quaff'd 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 earth worm's slimy brood | F |
| And circle in the goblet's shape | E |
| The drink of Gods than reptile's food | F |
| 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 |
| Redeem'd from worms and wasting clay | J |
| This chance is theirs to be of use | K |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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