A Song Of Other Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEF AGAGCHCHI JKJKLMCMI NONOPQPQI RSRSTUTUI VWVWXKXKEFEF| As o'er the glacier's frozen sheet | A |
| Breathes soft the Alpine rose | B |
| So through life's desert springing sweet | A |
| The flower of friendship grows | B |
| And as where'er the roses grow | C |
| Some rain or dew descends | D |
| 'T is nature's law that wine should flow | C |
| To wet the lips of friends | D |
| Then once again before we part | E |
| My empty glass shall ring | F |
| And he that has the warmest heart | E |
| Shall loudest laugh and sing | F |
| - | |
| They say we were not born to eat | A |
| But gray haired sages think | G |
| It means Be moderate in your meat | A |
| And partly live to drink | G |
| For baser tribes the rivers flow | C |
| That know not wine or song | H |
| Man wants but little drink below | C |
| But wants that little strong | H |
| Then once again etc | I |
| - | |
| If one bright drop is like the gem | J |
| That decks a monarch's crown | K |
| One goblet holds a diadem | J |
| Of rubies melted down | K |
| A fig for Caesar's blazing brow | L |
| But like the Egyptian queen | M |
| Bid each dissolving jewel glow | C |
| My thirsty lips between | M |
| Then once again etc | I |
| - | |
| The Grecian's mound the Roman's urn | N |
| Are silent when we call | O |
| Yet still the purple grapes return | N |
| To cluster on the wall | O |
| It was a bright Immortal's head | P |
| They circled with the vine | Q |
| And o'er their best and bravest dead | P |
| They poured the dark red wine | Q |
| Then once again etc | I |
| - | |
| Methinks o'er every sparkling glass | R |
| Young Eros waves his wings | S |
| And echoes o'er its dimples pass | R |
| From dead Anacreon's strings | S |
| And tossing round its beaded brim | T |
| Their locks of floating gold | U |
| With bacchant dance and choral hymn | T |
| Return the nymphs of old | U |
| Then once again etc | I |
| - | |
| A welcome then to joy and mirth | V |
| From hearts as fresh as ours | W |
| To scatter o'er the dust of earth | V |
| Their sweetly mingled flowers | W |
| 'T is Wisdom's self the cup that fills | X |
| In spite of Folly's frown | K |
| And Nature from her vine clad hills | X |
| That rains her life blood down | K |
| Then once again before we part | E |
| My empty glass shall ring | F |
| And he that has the warmest heart | E |
| Shall loudest laugh and sing | F |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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