From The Medea Of Euripides Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ| The rites derived from ancient days | A |
| With thoughtless reverence we praise | A |
| The rites that taught us to combine | B |
| The joys of music and of wine | B |
| And bid the feast and song and bowl | C |
| O'erfill the saturated soul | C |
| But ne'er the flute or lyre applied | D |
| To cheer despair or soften pride | D |
| Nor call them to the gloomy cells | E |
| Where Wants repines and Vengeance swells | E |
| Where Hate sits musing to betray | F |
| And murder meditates his prey | F |
| To dens of guilt and shades of care | G |
| Ye sons of melody repair | G |
| Nor deign the festive dome to cloy | H |
| With superfluity of joy | H |
| Ah little needs the minstrel's power | I |
| To speed the light convivial hour | I |
| The board with varied plenty crown'd | J |
| May spare the luxuries of sound | J |
Samuel Johnson
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