A Sentiment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGFCHHCC IIJJ| The pledge of Friendship it is still divine | A |
| Though watery floods have quenched its burning wine | A |
| Whatever vase the sacred drops may hold | B |
| The gourd the shell the cup of beaten gold | B |
| Around its brim the hand of Nature throws | C |
| A garland sweeter than the banquet s rose | C |
| Bright are the blushes of the vine wreathed bowl | D |
| Warm with the sunshine of Anacreon s soul | D |
| But dearer memories gild the tasteless wave | E |
| That fainting Sidney perished as he gave | E |
| T is the heart s current lends the cup its glow | F |
| Whate er the fountain whence the draught may flow | F |
| The diamond dew drops sparkling through the sand | G |
| Scooped by the Arab in his sunburnt hand | G |
| Or the dark streamlet oozing from the snow | F |
| Where creep and crouch the shuddering Esquimaux | C |
| Ay in the stream that ere again we meet | H |
| Shall burst the pavement glistening at our feet | H |
| And stealing silent from its leafy hills | C |
| Thread all our alleys with its thousand rills | C |
| In each pale draught if generous feeling blend | I |
| And o er the goblet friend shall smile on friend | I |
| Even cold Cochituate every heart shall warm | J |
| And genial Nature still defy reform | J |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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