Drinking Song, On The Excellence Of Burgundy Wine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAAA BBBBAAA CBCCDDD| My jolly fat host with your face all a grin | A |
| Come open the door to us let us come in | A |
| A score of stout fellows who think it no sin | A |
| If they toast till they're hoarse and drink till they spin | A |
| Hoofed it amain | A |
| Rain or no rain | A |
| To crack your old jokes and your bottle to drain | A |
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| Such a warmth in the belly that nectar begets | B |
| As soon as his guts with its humour he wets | B |
| The miser his gold and the student his debts | B |
| And the beggar his rags and his hunger forgets | B |
| For there's never a wine | A |
| Like this tipple of thine | A |
| From the great hill of Nuits to the River of Rhine | A |
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| Outside you may hear the great gusts as they go | C |
| By Foy by Duerne and the hills of Lerraulx | B |
| But the rain he may rain and the wind he may blow | C |
| If the Devil's above there's good liquor below | C |
| So it abound | D |
| Pass it around | D |
| Burgundy's Burgundy all the year round | D |
Hilaire Belloc
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