To Live Merrily, And To Trust To Good Verses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBD EFEF GHGH IJAJ KFKF LMLM NFNF OFOF PGPG FOFO OQOR NSNS| Now is the time for mirth | A |
| Nor cheek or tongue be dumb | B |
| For with the flow'ry earth | A |
| The golden pomp is come | B |
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| The golden pomp is come | B |
| For now each tree does wear | C |
| Made of her pap and gum | B |
| Rich beads of amber here | D |
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| Now reigns the rose and now | E |
| Th' Arabian dew besmears | F |
| My uncontrolled brow | E |
| And my retorted hairs | F |
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| Homer this health to thee | G |
| In sack of such a kind | H |
| That it would make thee see | G |
| Though thou wert ne'er so blind | H |
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| Next Virgil I'll call forth | I |
| To pledge this second health | J |
| In wine whose each cup's worth | A |
| An Indian commonwealth | J |
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| A goblet next I'll drink | K |
| To Ovid and suppose | F |
| Made he the pledge he'd think | K |
| The world had all one nose | F |
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| Then this immensive cup | L |
| Of aromatic wine | M |
| Catullus I quaff up | L |
| To that terse muse of thine | M |
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| Wild I am now with heat | N |
| O Bacchus cool thy rays | F |
| Or frantic I shall eat | N |
| Thy thyrse and bite the bays | F |
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| Round round the roof does run | O |
| And being ravish'd thus | F |
| Come I will drink a tun | O |
| To my Propertius | F |
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| Now to Tibullus next | P |
| This flood I drink to thee | G |
| But stay I see a text | P |
| That this presents to me | G |
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| Behold Tibullus lies | F |
| Here burnt whose small return | O |
| Of ashes scarce suffice | F |
| To fill a little urn | O |
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| Trust to good verses then | O |
| They only will aspire | Q |
| When pyramids as men | O |
| Are lost i' th' funeral fire | R |
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| And when all bodies meet | N |
| In Lethe to be drown'd | S |
| Then only numbers sweet | N |
| With endless life are crown'd | S |
Robert Herrick
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