A Lyric To Mirth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAAEEFF| While the milder fates consent | A |
| Let's enjoy our merriment | A |
| Drink and dance and pipe and play | B |
| Kiss our dollies night and day | B |
| Crowned with clusters of the vine | C |
| Let us sit and quaff our wine | C |
| Call on Bacchus chant his praise | D |
| Shake the thyrse and bite the bays | D |
| Rouse Anacreon from the dead | A |
| And return him drunk to bed | A |
| Sing o'er Horace for ere long | E |
| Death will come and mar the song | E |
| Then shall Wilson and Gotiere | F |
| Never sing or play more here | F |
Robert Herrick
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