The Wine Of Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGG HIHIBB JKJKLL MNMNOO| Earthen jar of quaint design | A |
| Fragile clay and slender mould | B |
| I shall soon have drained the wine | A |
| Which you still contrive to hold | B |
| Wine that sixty years ago | C |
| Seemed about to overflow | C |
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| Few the draughts that now remain | D |
| And I husband them with care | E |
| For naught ever comes again | F |
| That is once exhausted there | E |
| And the emptied jar is cast | G |
| To the scrap heap of the past | G |
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| Oh the wine we rashly waste | H |
| When held brimming to the lip | I |
| What a difference in its taste | H |
| When we drink it sip by sip | I |
| As a miser counts his gold | B |
| On a hearth that leaves him cold | B |
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| But why should we feel distress | J |
| If the jar be far from filled | K |
| Though its contents may be less | J |
| Yet its essence is distilled | K |
| And the best wine always clears | L |
| With the passing of the years | L |
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| Fermentation is for youth | M |
| But serenity for age | N |
| For a knowledge of the truth | M |
| Men have always sought the Sage | N |
| And though youth may live with zest | O |
| 'Tis in age that one lives best | O |
John L. Stoddard
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