Strong Beer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCCDCCCD EEEDFFFD GGHHII JJKKAALLFFFF| What do you think | A |
| The bravest drink | A |
| Under the sky | B |
| Strong beer said I | B |
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| There's a place for everything | C |
| Everything anything | C |
| There's a place for everything | C |
| Where it ought to be | D |
| For a chicken the hen's wing | C |
| For poison the bee's sting | C |
| For almond blossom Spring | C |
| A beerhouse for me | D |
| - | |
| There's a prize for every one | E |
| Every one any one | E |
| There's a prize for every one | E |
| Whoever he may be | D |
| Crags for the mountaineer | F |
| Flags for the Fusilier | F |
| For English poets beer | F |
| Strong beer for me | D |
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| Tell us now how and when | G |
| We may find the bravest men | G |
| A sure test an easy test | H |
| Those that drink beer are the best | H |
| Brown beer strongly brewed | I |
| English drink and English food | I |
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| Oh never choose as Gideon chose | J |
| By the cold well but rather those | J |
| Who look on beer when it is brown | K |
| Smack their lips and gulp it down | K |
| Leave the lads who tamely drink | A |
| With Gideon by the water brink | A |
| But search the benches of the Plough | L |
| The Tun the Sun the Spotted Cow | L |
| For jolly rascal lads who pray | F |
| Pewter in hand at close of day | F |
| Teach me to live that I may fear | F |
| The grave as little as my beer | F |
Robert Graves
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