Dram-shop Ditty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GHIJJI KLIMNI OOPQQP RRESSE TTSUVS WWEXXE YYSZZS A2B2BSSBI 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 William Service
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