Dram-shop Ditty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GHIJJI KLIMNI OOPQQP RRESSE TTSUVS WWEXXE YYSZZS A2B2BSSB| I drink my fill of foamy ale | A |
| I sing a song I tell a tale | A |
| I play the fiddle | B |
| My throat is chronically dry | C |
| Yet savant of a sort am I | C |
| And Life's my riddle | B |
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| For look I raise my arm to drink | D |
| A voluntary act you think | D |
| Nay Sir you're grinning | E |
| You're wrong this stein of beer I've drained | F |
| to emptiness was pre ordained | F |
| Since Time's beginning | E |
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| But stay 'Tis I who err because | G |
| Time has no birth it always was | H |
| It will be ever | I |
| And trivial though my act appears | J |
| Its repercussion down the years | J |
| Will perish never | I |
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| It will condition ages hence | K |
| but its most urgent consequence | L |
| You'll not deny Sir | I |
| Is that it should be filled again | M |
| To goad my philosophic brain | N |
| If you will buy Sir | I |
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| There is no great there is no small | O |
| Fate makes a tapestry of all | O |
| each stitch is needed | P |
| The gods be praised that barman chap | Q |
| Manipulates his frothing tap | Q |
| My plea is heeded | P |
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| Two foaming tankards over spill | R |
| And soon ah not too soon they will | R |
| Our thirst be slaking | E |
| Stout lad he does not dream that he | S |
| A page of history maybe | S |
| Is blandly making | E |
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| For Sir it was ordained that you | T |
| Buy me a drink or maybe two | T |
| Since ages hoary | S |
| And doubtless it is predestined | U |
| our meeting shall affect in kind | V |
| Earth's Cosmic Story | S |
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| The fathomless eternal Past | W |
| The Future infinitely vast | W |
| We two are linking | E |
| So let us fitly celebrate | X |
| This moment of immortal Fate | X |
| In drinking drinking | E |
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| But though I toss a hearty pot | Y |
| Kind stranger do not think I'm not | Y |
| For Truth a groper | S |
| Another Thanks I won't refuse | Z |
| I am a tippler if you choose | Z |
| But not a toper | S |
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| A nice distinction Well life's good | A2 |
| Just give me beer rich greasy food | B2 |
| And let me fiddle | B |
| Enough of dull philosophy | S |
| To night we'll merry merry be | S |
| Hi diddle diddle | B |
Robert Service
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