Drink. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBAACCDDEFGGHH A IIJJKKLLAGMMNN A OOGGGGGGAAHHPPNNGGGG P QRGGSSTTNNNNGGPPGGGG NNHHGGGGUUVVGG| I | A |
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| An English village a summer scene | B |
| A homely cottage a garden green | B |
| An opening vista a cloudless sky | A |
| A bee that hums as it passes by | A |
| A babe that chuckles among the flowers | C |
| A smile that enlivens the mid day hours | C |
| A wife that is fair as the sunny day | D |
| A peace that the world cannot take away | D |
| A hope that is humble and daily bread | E |
| A thankful soul that is comforted | F |
| A cosy cot and a slumbering child | G |
| A life and a love that are undefiled | G |
| A thought that is silent an earnest prayer | H |
| The noiseless step of a phantom there | H |
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| II | A |
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| A drunken husband a wailing wife | I |
| Oh a weary way is the way of life | I |
| A heartless threat and a cruel blow | J |
| And grief that the world can never know | J |
| A tongue obscene and a will perverse | K |
| A horrid oath and a muttered curse | K |
| A winter drear and a scanty meal | L |
| A heart so hard oh a heart of steel | L |
| A wizened look and an infant's cry | A |
| The cold cold clutch of Poverty | G |
| A withered hand and a blanch d cheek | M |
| Alone and ah no friend to seek | M |
| A chilly hearth and a ragged dress | N |
| A home that is all heaviness | N |
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| III | A |
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| A grim grey court in a City's gloom | O |
| A frantic fear of eternal doom | O |
| A wretch besotted and depraved | G |
| And cries that cursed the curse they craved | G |
| Pollution all no light no light | G |
| Oh where shall be my drink to night | G |
| A wretched garret a straw strewn bed | G |
| A husband stretched in a corner dead | G |
| A shriek of anguish a choking sigh | A |
| Oh let me perish let me die | A |
| An agony of dire despair | H |
| A picture of torn and dishevelled hair | H |
| And none to succour none to save | P |
| A pauper's hearse and an early grave | P |
| A voiceless widow a wringing of hands | N |
| A long long wish for some far off sands | N |
| A staring eye and a vacant mood | G |
| Oh Father teach me to be good | G |
| A strengthless effort a feverish start | G |
| A prostrate form and a broken heart | G |
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| IV | P |
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| A dismal eve and a howling dog | Q |
| A ghostly silence a river fog | R |
| A byway deserted a dingy street | G |
| A glimmer to light life's feeble feet | G |
| A trembling step and a beaded brow | S |
| Oh where oh where shall I hasten now | S |
| No eye hath seen nor ever shall | T |
| On on in the gloom to the still canal | T |
| Hush hush a murmur a fearful pause | N |
| A footfall oh horror a slam of doors | N |
| A sinking down to former repose | N |
| Oh darkness come and end my woes | N |
| Away like a phantom down far to the East | G |
| Oh when shall the weary and sad be released | G |
| An alley a prayer a soundless wharf | P |
| A biting wind and a graveyard cough | P |
| A heap of rags and a starving child | G |
| Alas alas for the undefiled | G |
| A heavy tide and a moon obscured | G |
| A shapeless mass of barges moored | G |
| Nor light nor sound and a flood that gapes | N |
| A frowning pile of horrid shapes | N |
| All darkness blackness deep despair | H |
| My burden is greater than I can bear | H |
| A rolling river the dead of night | G |
| A form all palsied with affright | G |
| Alone yes alone yet so afraid | G |
| A hurried stride from that inky shade | G |
| On over the barges away from the shore | U |
| One breathless clasp one long clasp more | U |
| A heavy plunge and a gurgling groan | V |
| Two clammy corpses cold as stone | V |
| A brow distorted a clench d fist | G |
| A babe the Lord Himself has kissed | G |
Lennox Amott
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