Nationality In Drinks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD A EFEFDD GHGHIIHJHJJHHKKK FFLMNNOOCCHHKK

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My heart sank with our Claret flaskB
Just now beneath the heavy sedgesC
That serve this Pond's black face for maskB
And still at yonder broken edgesC
O' the hole where up the bubbles glistenD
After my heart I look and listenD
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Our laughing little flask compelledE
Thro' depth to depth more bleak and shadyF
As when both arms beside her heldE
Feet straightened out some gay French ladyF
Is caught up from life's light and motionD
And dropped into death's silent oceanD
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Up jumped Tokay on our tableG
Like a pygmy castle warderH
Dwarfish to see but stout and ableG
Arms and accoutrements all in orderH
And fierce he looked North then wheeling SouthI
Blew with his bugle a challenge to DrouthI
Cocked his flap hat with the tosspot featherH
Twisted his thumb in his red moustacheJ
Jingled his huge brass spurs togetherH
Tightened his waist with its Buda sashJ
And then with an impudence nought could abashJ
Shrugged his hump shoulder to tell the beholderH
For twenty such knaves he should laugh but the bolderH
And so with his sword hilt gallantly juttingK
And dexter hand on his haunch abuttingK
Went the little man Sir Ausbruch struttingK
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Here's to Nelson's memoryF
'Tis the second time that I at seaF
Right off Cape Trafalgar hereL
Have drunk it deep in British BeerM
Nelson for ever any timeN
Am I his to command in prose or rhymeN
Give me of Nelson only a touchO
And I save it be it little or muchO
Here's one our Captain gives and soC
Down at the word by George shall it goC
He says that at Greenwich they point the beholderH
To Nelson's coat still with tar on the shoulderH
For he used to lean with one shoulder diggingK
Jigging as it were and zig zag ziggingK
Up against the mizen rigging ''-

Robert Browning



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