To One Demanding Why Wine Sparkles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEAAFFGHIEJJ KKLLMMNMAAMM| So Diamonds sparkle and thy Mistriss eyes | A |
| When tis not Fire but light in either flyes | A |
| Beauty not thaw'd by lustful flames will show | B |
| Like a fair mountain of unmelted snow | B |
| Nor can the tasted vine more danger bring | C |
| Then water taken from the chrystall Spring | C |
| Whose end is to refresh and cool that heat | D |
| Which unallayd becomes foul vices seat | D |
| Unless thy boyling veins mad with desire | E |
| Of drink convert the liquor into fire | E |
| For then thou quaff'st down feavers thy full bowles | A |
| Carouse the burning draughts of Portia's coles | A |
| If it do leap and sparkle in the cup | F |
| Twill sink thy cares and help invention up | F |
| There never yet was Muse or Poet known | G |
| Not dipt or drenched in this Helicon | H |
| But Tom take heed thou use it with such care | I |
| As Witches deal with their Familiar | E |
| For if thy vertues circle not confine | J |
| And guard thee from the Furies rais'd by wine | J |
| 'Tis ten to one this dancing spirit may | K |
| A Devil prove to bear thy wits away | K |
| And make thy glowing nose a Map of Hell | L |
| Where Bacchus purple fumes like Meteors dwell | L |
| Now think not these sage moralls thee invite | M |
| To prove Carthusian or strict Rechabite | M |
| Let fooles be mad wise people may be free | N |
| Though not to license turn their libertie | M |
| He that drinks wine for health not for excess | A |
| Nor drownes his temper in a drunkenness | A |
| Shall feel no more the grapes unruly fate | M |
| Then if he took some chilling Opiate | M |
Henry King
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