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 NSNSNow 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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