Nationality In Drinks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD A EFEFDD GHGHIIHJHJJHHKKK FFLMNNOOCCHHKKI | A |
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My heart sank with our Claret flask | B |
Just now beneath the heavy sedges | C |
That serve this Pond's black face for mask | B |
And still at yonder broken edges | C |
O' the hole where up the bubbles glisten | D |
After my heart I look and listen | D |
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II | A |
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Our laughing little flask compelled | E |
Thro' depth to depth more bleak and shady | F |
As when both arms beside her held | E |
Feet straightened out some gay French lady | F |
Is caught up from life's light and motion | D |
And dropped into death's silent ocean | D |
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Up jumped Tokay on our table | G |
Like a pygmy castle warder | H |
Dwarfish to see but stout and able | G |
Arms and accoutrements all in order | H |
And fierce he looked North then wheeling South | I |
Blew with his bugle a challenge to Drouth | I |
Cocked his flap hat with the tosspot feather | H |
Twisted his thumb in his red moustache | J |
Jingled his huge brass spurs together | H |
Tightened his waist with its Buda sash | J |
And then with an impudence nought could abash | J |
Shrugged his hump shoulder to tell the beholder | H |
For twenty such knaves he should laugh but the bolder | H |
And so with his sword hilt gallantly jutting | K |
And dexter hand on his haunch abutting | K |
Went the little man Sir Ausbruch strutting | K |
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Here's to Nelson's memory | F |
'Tis the second time that I at sea | F |
Right off Cape Trafalgar here | L |
Have drunk it deep in British Beer | M |
Nelson for ever any time | N |
Am I his to command in prose or rhyme | N |
Give me of Nelson only a touch | O |
And I save it be it little or much | O |
Here's one our Captain gives and so | C |
Down at the word by George shall it go | C |
He says that at Greenwich they point the beholder | H |
To Nelson's coat still with tar on the shoulder | H |
For he used to lean with one shoulder digging | K |
Jigging as it were and zig zag zigging | K |
Up against the mizen rigging '' | - |
Robert Browning
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