A Cup Of Tea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE BEBEFGFG AHAHDIDI JJKDJLJL| I have sipped with drooping lashes | A |
| Dreamy draughts of Verzenay | B |
| I have flourished brandy smashes | A |
| In the wildest sort of way | C |
| I have joked with 'Tom and Jerry' | D |
| Till wee hours ayont the twal' | E |
| But I've found my tea the very | D |
| Safest tipple of them all | E |
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| 'Tis a mystical potation | B |
| That exceeds in warmth of glow | E |
| And divine exhilaration | B |
| All the drugs of long ago | E |
| All of old magicians' potions | F |
| Of Medea's filtered spells | G |
| Or of fabled isles and oceans | F |
| Where the Lotos eater dwells | G |
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| Though I've reveled o'er late lunches | A |
| With blase dramatic stars | H |
| And absorbed their wit and punches | A |
| And the fumes of their cigars | H |
| Drank in the latest story | D |
| With a cock tail either end | I |
| I have drained a deeper glory | D |
| In a cup of tea my friend | I |
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| Green Black Moyune Formosa | J |
| Congou Amboy Pingsuey | J |
| No odds the name it knows ah | K |
| Fill a cup of it for me | D |
| And as I clink my china | J |
| Against your goblet's brim | L |
| My tea in steam shall twine a | J |
| Fragrant laurel round its rim | L |
James Whitcomb Riley
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