Sake Name. - The Convivial Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BA BA BA BA BA B C DC DC DC DC DB DC DC DC DC D| Can the Koran from Eternity be | A |
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| 'Tis worth not a thought | B |
| Can the Koran a creation then be | A |
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| Of that I know nought | B |
| Yet that the book of all books it must be | A |
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| I believe as a Mussulman ought | B |
| That from Eternity wine though must be | A |
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| I ever have thought | B |
| That 'twas ordain'd ere the Angels to be | A |
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| As a truth may be taught | B |
| Drinkers however these matters may be | A |
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| Gaze on God's face fearing nought | B |
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| YE'VE often for our drunkenness | C |
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| Blamed us in ev'ry way | D |
| And in abuse of drunkenness | C |
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| Enough can never say | D |
| Men overcome by drunkenness | C |
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| Are wont to lie till day | D |
| And yet I find my drunkenness | C |
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| All night time make me stray | D |
| For oh 'tis Love's sweet drunkenness | C |
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| That maketh me its prey | D |
| Which night and day and day and night | B |
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| My heart must needs obey | D |
| A heart that in its drunkenness | C |
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| Pours forth full many a lay | D |
| So that no trifling drunkenness | C |
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| Can dare assert its sway | D |
| Love song and wine's sweet drunkenness | C |
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| By night time and by day | D |
| How god like is the drunkenness | C |
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| That maketh me its prey | D |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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