Wine And Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABB CCCCBB DDDDBB| Old 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 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 | B |
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| The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding off the brink | C |
| As if it would wash the stars away as suds go down a sink | C |
| The seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink | C |
| And Noah he cocked his eye and said It looks like rain I think | C |
| 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 | B |
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| But Noah he sinned and we have sinned on tipsy feet we trod | D |
| Till a great big black teetotaller was sent to us for a rod | D |
| And you can't get wine at a P S A or chapel or Eisteddfod | D |
| For the Curse of Water has come again because of the wrath of God | D |
| 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 |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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