A Loving-cup Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBD EEBFFBG HHBIIBJ KKBLLBM NNBOOBA PPBQQBR| COME heap the fagots Ere we go | A |
| Again the cheerful hearth shall glow | A |
| We 'll have another blaze my boys | B |
| When clouds are black and snows are white | C |
| Then Christmas logs lend ruddy light | C |
| They stole from summer days my boys | B |
| They stole from summer days | D |
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| And let the Loving Cup go round | E |
| The Cup with blessed memories crowned | E |
| That flows whene'er we meet my boys | B |
| No draught will hold a drop of sin | F |
| If love is only well stirred in | F |
| To keep it sound and sweet my boys | B |
| To keep it sound and sweet | G |
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| Give me to pin upon my breast | H |
| The blossoms twain I love the best | H |
| A rosebud and a pink my boys | B |
| Their leaves shall nestle next my heart | I |
| Their perfumed breath shall own its part | I |
| In every health we drink my boys | B |
| In every health we drink | J |
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| The breathing blossoms stir my blood | K |
| Methinks I see the lilacs bud | K |
| And hear the bluebirds sing my boys | B |
| Why not Yon lusty oak has seen | L |
| Full tenscore years yet leaflets green | L |
| Peep out with every spring my boys | B |
| Peep out with every spring | M |
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| Old Time his rusty scythe may whet | N |
| The unmowed grass is glowing yet | N |
| Beneath the sheltering snow my boys | B |
| And if the crazy dotard ask | O |
| Is love worn out Is life a task | O |
| We'll bravely answer No my boys | B |
| We 'll bravely answer No | A |
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| For life's bright taper is the same | P |
| Love tipped of old with rosy flame | P |
| That heaven's own altar lent my boys | B |
| To glow in every cup we fill | Q |
| Till lips are mute and hearts are still | Q |
| Till life and love are spent my boys | B |
| Till life and love are spent | R |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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