The Reckoning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CB C D B EB EF GF G B H IH I D F JF JB KB K B H IH I D L ML MN ON O B H IH I D C IC IG NG N B H IH I G C IC IG GG G B H IH I G G PG Q R IS I B H IH I| LEADER | A |
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| LET no cares now hover o'er us | B |
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| Let the wine unsparing run | C |
| Wilt thou swell our merry chorus | B |
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| Hast thou all thy duty done | C |
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| SOLO | D |
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| Two young folks the thing is curious | B |
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| Loved each other yesterday | E |
| Both quite mild to day quite furious | B |
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| Next day quite the deuce to pay | E |
| If her neck she there was stooping | F |
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| He must here needs pull his hair | G |
| I revived their spirits drooping | F |
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| And they're now a happy pair | G |
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| CHORUS | B |
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| Surely we for wine may languish | H |
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| Let the bumper then go round | I |
| For all sighs and groans of anguish | H |
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| Thou to day in joy hast drown'd | I |
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| SOLO | D |
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| Why young orphan all this wailing | F |
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| Would to heaven that I were dead | J |
| For my guardian's craft prevailing | F |
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| Soon will make me beg my bread | J |
| Knowing well the rascal genus | B |
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| Into court I dragg'd the knave | K |
| Fair the judges were between us | B |
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| And the maiden's wealth did save | K |
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| CHORUS | B |
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| Surely we for wine may languish | H |
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| Let the bumper then go round | I |
| For all sighs and groans of anguish | H |
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| Thou to day in joy hast drown'd | I |
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| SOLO | D |
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| To a little fellow quiet | L |
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| Unpretending and subdued | M |
| Has a big clown running riot | L |
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| Been to day extremely rude | M |
| I bethought me of my duty | N |
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| And my courage swell'd apace | O |
| So I spoil'd the rascal's beauty | N |
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| Slashing him across the face | O |
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| CHORUS | B |
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| Surely we for wine may languish | H |
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| Let the bumper then go round | I |
| For all sighs and groans of anguish | H |
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| Thou to day in joy hast drown'd | I |
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| SOLO | D |
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| Brief must be my explanation | C |
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| For I really have done nought | I |
| Free from trouble and vexation | C |
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| I a landlord's business bought | I |
| There I've done with all due ardour | G |
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| All that duty order'd me | N |
| Each one ask'd me for the larder | G |
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| And there was no scarcity | N |
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| CHORUS | B |
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| Surely we for wine may languish | H |
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| Let the bumper then go round | I |
| For all sighs and groans of anguish | H |
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| Thou to day in joy hast drown'd | I |
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| LEADER | G |
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| Each should thus make proclamation | C |
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| Of what he did well to day | I |
| That's the match whose conflagration | C |
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| Should inflame our tuneful lay | I |
| Let it be our precept ever | G |
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| To admit no waverer here | G |
| For to act the good endeavour | G |
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| None but rascals meek appear | G |
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| CHORUS | B |
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| Surely we for wine may languish | H |
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| Let the bumper then go round | I |
| For all sighs and groans of anguish | H |
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| We have now in rapture drown'd | I |
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| TRIO | G |
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| Let each merry minstrel enter | G |
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| He's right welcome to our hall | P |
| 'Tis but with the self tormentor | G |
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| That we are not liberal | Q |
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| For we fear that his caprices | R |
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| That his eye brows dark and sad | I |
| That his grief that never ceases | S |
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| Hide an empty heart or bad | I |
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| CHORUS | B |
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| No one now for wine shall languish | H |
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| Here no minstrel shall be found | I |
| Who all sighs and groans of anguish | H |
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| Has not first in rapture drown'd | I |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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