Drinking Alone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EF GH IJ KL KL GM| I take my wine jug out among the flowers | A |
| to drink alone without friends | B |
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| I raise my cup to entice the moon | C |
| That and my shadow makes us three | D |
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| But the moon doesn't drink | E |
| and my shadow silently follows | F |
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| I will travel with moon and shadow | G |
| happy to the end of spring | H |
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| When I sing the moon dances | I |
| When I dance my shadow dances too | J |
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| We share life's joys when sober | K |
| Drunk each goes a separate way | L |
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| Constant friends although we wander | K |
| we'll meet again in the Milky Way | L |
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| Li T'ai po | G |
| tr Hamil | M |
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