Omar Out Of Date Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCB DDED FFGF HIJH KKK HHKH LLHL AMHM NNON PPHP HHQH RRPR DDSDBY A RENEGADE DISCIPLE | A |
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Wake for Reveill e scatters into flight | B |
The flagging Rearguard of a ruined Night | B |
And hark the meagre Champion of the Roost | C |
Has flung a matins to the Throne of Light | B |
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Here while the first beam smites the sullen Sky | D |
With silent feet Haj m comes stealing nigh | D |
Bearing the Brush the Vessel and the Blade | E |
These sallow cheeks of mine to scarify | D |
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How often oh how often have I sworn | F |
Myself myself to shave th' ensuing Morn | F |
And then and then comes Guest night and Haj m | G |
Appears unbidden and is gladly borne | F |
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Come fill the Cup The nerve restoring Ti | H |
Shall woo me with the Leaf of far Bohi | I |
What matter that to some the Koko makes | J |
Appeal to some the Cingalese Kofi | H |
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For in a minute Toil that ever thrives | K |
Awaits me with her Shackles and her Gyves | K |
And ever crieth Folly in the streets | K |
'To work for needs ye must when Shait n drives ' | - |
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Alas that I did yesternight disport | H |
With certain fellows of the baser Sort | H |
Unheedful of the living consequence | K |
When Drinks are long and Pockets all too short | H |
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With them the game of Poka did I play | L |
And in wild session turned the Night to Day | L |
And many a Chip I dropped upon the Board | H |
And many a Moistener poured upon the Clay | L |
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I put my Pile against th' Improbable | A |
And with a Full Hand thought to make it swell | M |
And this was all the Profit that I reaped | H |
A Full of Kings is Heaven and Fours are Hell | M |
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Then to the Mountain Dew I turned to seek | N |
New courage for the Vengeance I should wreak | N |
And once again came Fours again the Flesh | O |
Was willing and the Spirits far from weak | N |
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O Friend of pseudo philosophic Calm | P |
Who found within the Cup a life's Aram | P |
Thy counsel howsoever fair to read | H |
Were passing bad to follow friend Khayyam | P |
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Was it not Suleiman the Wise that said | H |
Look not upon the Wine when it is red | H |
And Suleiman the Wise knew What was Which | Q |
Though that great Heart of his outmatched his Head | H |
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Ah with the Pledge a Door of Refuge ope | R |
To wean my footsteps from the facile Slope | R |
And write me down fulfilled of Self esteem | P |
A Prop and Pillar of the Band of Hope | R |
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That in the Club should whilom Comrades try | D |
To lure me to a Roister on the sly | D |
The necessary Zeal I may not lack | S |
To turn away nor wink the Other Eye | D |
John Kendall (dum-dum)
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