Chiang Chin Chiu Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHIJSee the waters of the Yellow River leap down from Heaven Roll away to the deep sea and never turn again See at the mirror | A |
in the High Hall Aged men bewailing white locks In the morning threads of silk In the evening flakes of snow Snatch the joys | B |
of life as they come and use them to the full Do not leave the silver cup idly glinting at the moon The things that Heaven made | C |
Man was meant to use A thousand guilders scattered to the wind may come back again Roast mutton and sliced beef will only | D |
taste well If you drink with them at one sitting three hundred cups Great Master Ts' en Doctor Tan ch'iu Here is wine do not | E |
stop drinking But listen please and I will sing you a song Bells and drums and fine food what are they to me Who only want | F |
to get drunk and never again be sober The Saints and Sages of old times are all stock and still Only the might drinkers of wine | G |
have left a name behind When the prince of Ch' en gave a feast in the Palace of P'ing lo With twenty thousand gallons of wine | G |
he loosed mirth and play The master of the feast must not cry that his money is all spent Let him send to the tavern and fetch | H |
wine to keep our tankards filled His five flower horse and thousand guilder coat Let him call the boy to take them along and | I |
pawn them for good wine That drinking together we may drive away the sorrows of a thousand years | J |
Li Po
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