Catawba Wine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCC DDCEEC FFGHHG IIJKKJ CCLMML NAOAAO AAJPPJ CCQCCQ CCJAAJ LLRAAR AAJIIJThis song of mine | A |
Is a Song of the Vine | A |
To be sung by the glowing embers | B |
Of wayside inns | C |
When the rain begins | C |
To darken the drear Novembers | C |
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It is not a song | D |
Of the Scuppernong | D |
From warm Carolinian valleys | C |
Nor the Isabel | E |
And the Muscadel | E |
That bask in our garden alleys | C |
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Nor the red Mustang | F |
Whose clusters hang | F |
O'er the waves of the Colorado | G |
And the fiery flood | H |
Of whose purple blood | H |
Has a dash of Spanish bravado | G |
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For richest and best | I |
Is the wine of the West | I |
That grows by the Beautiful River | J |
Whose sweet perfume | K |
Fills all the room | K |
With a benison on the giver | J |
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And as hollow trees | C |
Are the haunts of bees | C |
For ever going and coming | L |
So this crystal hive | M |
Is all alive | M |
With a swarming and buzzing and humming | L |
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Very good in its way | N |
Is the Verzenay | A |
Or the Sillery soft and creamy | O |
But Catawba wine | A |
Has a taste more divine | A |
More dulcet delicious and dreamy | O |
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There grows no vine | A |
By the haunted Rhine | A |
By Danube or Guadalquivir | J |
Nor on island or cape | P |
That bears such a grape | P |
As grows by the Beautiful River | J |
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Drugged is their juice | C |
For foreign use | C |
When shipped o'er the reeling Atlantic | Q |
To rack our brains | C |
With the fever pains | C |
That have driven the Old World frantic | Q |
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To the sewers and sinks | C |
With all such drinks | C |
And after them tumble the mixer | J |
For a poison malign | A |
Is such Borgia wine | A |
Or at best but a Devil's Elixir | J |
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While pure as a spring | L |
Is the wine I sing | L |
And to praise it one needs but name it | R |
For Catawba wine | A |
Has need of no sign | A |
No tavern bush to proclaim it | R |
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And this Song of the Vine | A |
This greeting of mine | A |
The winds and the birds shall deliver | J |
To the Queen of the West | I |
In her garlands dressed | I |
On the banks of the Beautiful River | J |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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