Drinking Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| There are people I know to be found | A |
| Who say and apparently think | B |
| That sorrow and care may be drowned | A |
| By a timely consumption of drink | B |
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| Does not man these enthusiasts ask | C |
| Most nearly approach the divine | D |
| When engaged in the soul stirring task | C |
| Of filling his body with wine | D |
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| Have not beggars been frequently known | E |
| When satisfied soaked and replete | F |
| To imagine their bench was a throne | E |
| And the civilised world at their feet | F |
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| Lord Byron has finely described | G |
| The remarkably soothing effect | H |
| Of liquor profusely imbibed | G |
| On a soul that is shattered and wrecked | H |
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| In short if your body or mind | I |
| Or your soul or your purse come to grief | J |
| You need only get drunk and you'll find | I |
| Complete and immediate relief | J |
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| For myself I have managed to do | K |
| Without having recourse to this plan | L |
| So I can't write a poem for you | K |
| And you'd better get someone who can | L |
James Kenneth Stephen
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