Bringing In The Wine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJFKFLMNOFFP FQFORSFF| See how the Yellow River's water move out of heaven | A |
| Entering the ocean never to return | B |
| See how lovely locks in bright mirrors in high chambers | C |
| Though silken black at morning have changed by night to snow | D |
| Oh let a man of spirit venture where he pleases | E |
| And never tip his golden cup empty toward the moon | F |
| Since heaven gave the talent let it be employed | G |
| Spin a thousand of pieces of silver all of them come back | H |
| Cook a sheep kill a cow whet the appetite | I |
| And make me of three hundred bowls one long drink | J |
| To the old master Tsen | F |
| And the young scholar Tan chiu | K |
| Bring in the wine | F |
| Let your cups never rest | L |
| Let me sing you a song | M |
| Let your ears attend | N |
| What are bell and drum rare dishes and treasure | O |
| Let me br forever drunk and never come to reason | F |
| Sober men of olden days and sages are forgotten | F |
| And only the great drinkers are famous for all time | P |
| Prince Chen paid at a banquet in the Palace of Perfection | F |
| Ten thousand coins for a cask of wine with many a laugh and quip | Q |
| Why say my host that your money is gone | F |
| Go and buy wine and we'll drink it together | O |
| My flower dappled horse | R |
| My furs worth a thousand | S |
| Hand them to the boy to exchange for good wine | F |
| And we'll drown away the woes of ten thousand generation | F |
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