Bacchus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCDDEE FGAHIAGHDJKDLL FIDID FMMNN DIDOONNMM DPMPDP GGQRSTTGTTUDDVAAV| Bring me wine but wine which never grew | A |
| In the belly of the grape | B |
| Or grew on vine whose taproots reaching through | A |
| Under the Andes to the Cape | B |
| Suffered no savor of the world to 'scape | B |
| Let its grapes the morn salute | C |
| From a nocturnal root | C |
| Which feels the acrid juice | D |
| Of Styx and Erebus | D |
| And turns the woe of night | E |
| By its own craft to a more rich delight | E |
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| We buy ashes for bread | F |
| We buy diluted wine | G |
| Give me of the true | A |
| Whose ample leaves and tendrils curled | H |
| Among the silver hills of heaven | I |
| Draw everlasting dew | A |
| Wine of wine | G |
| Blood of the world | H |
| Form of forms and mould of statures | D |
| That I intoxicated | J |
| And by the draught assimilated | K |
| May float at pleasure through all natures | D |
| The bird language rightly spell | L |
| And that which roses say so well | L |
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| Wine that is shed | F |
| Like the torrents of the sun | I |
| Up the horizon walls | D |
| Or like the Atlantic streams which run | I |
| When the South Sea calls | D |
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| Water and bread | F |
| Food which needs no transmuting | M |
| Rainbow flowering wisdom fruiting | M |
| Wine which is already man | N |
| Food which teach and reason can | N |
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| Wine which music is | D |
| Music and wine are one | I |
| That I drinking this | D |
| Shall hear far chaos talk with me | O |
| Kings unborn shall walk with me | O |
| And the poor grass shall plot and plan | N |
| What it will do when it is man | N |
| Quickened so will I unlock | M |
| Every crypt of every rock | M |
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| I thank the joyful juice | D |
| For all I know | P |
| Winds of remembering | M |
| Of the ancient being blow | P |
| And seeming solid walls ot use | D |
| Open and flow | P |
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| Pour Bacchus the remembering wine | G |
| Retrieve the loss of me and mine | G |
| Vine for vine be antidote | Q |
| And the grape requite the lot | R |
| Haste to cure the old despair | S |
| Reason in nature's lotus drenched | T |
| The memory of ages quenched | T |
| Give them again to shine | G |
| Let wine repair what this undid | T |
| And where the infection slid | T |
| And dazzling memory revive | U |
| Refresh the faded tints | D |
| Recut the aged prints | D |
| And write my old adventures with the pen | V |
| Which on the first day drew | A |
| Upon the tablets blue | A |
| The dancing Pleiads and the eternal men | V |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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