Ergo Bibamus! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC BDDD B E BE BBBB B F BF BGGG B B BB BBBB B| FOR a praiseworthy object we're now gather'd here | A |
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| So brethren sing ERGO BIBAMUS | B |
| Tho' talk may be hush'd yet the glasses ring clear | C |
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| Remember then ERGO BIBAMUS | B |
| In truth 'tis an old 'tis an excellent word | D |
| With its sound so befitting each bosom is stirr'd | D |
| And an echo the festal hall filling is heard | D |
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| A glorious ERGO BIBAMUS | B |
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| I saw mine own love in her beauty so rare | E |
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| And bethought me of ERGO BIBAMUS | B |
| So I gently approach'd and she let me stand there | E |
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| While I help'd myself thinking BIBAMUS | B |
| And when she's appeased and will clasp you and kiss | B |
| Or when those embraces and kisses ye miss | B |
| Take refuge till sound is some worthier bliss | B |
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| In the comforting ERGO BIBAMUS | B |
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| I am call'd by my fate far away from each friend | F |
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| Ye loved ones then ERGO BIBAMUS | B |
| With wallet light laden from hence I must wend | F |
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| So double our ERGO BIBAMUS | B |
| Whate'er to his treasures the niggard may add | G |
| Yet regard for the joyous will ever be had | G |
| For gladness lends over its charms to the glad | G |
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| So brethren sing ERGO BIBAMUS | B |
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| And what shall we say of to day as it flies | B |
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| I thought but of ERGO BIBAMUS | B |
| 'Tis one of those truly that seldom arise | B |
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| So again and again sing BIBAMUS | B |
| For joy through a wide open portal it guides | B |
| Bright glitter the clouds as the curtain divides | B |
| An a form a divine one to greet us in glides | B |
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| While we thunder our ERGO BIBAMUS | B |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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