Wassail Chorus At The Mermaid Tavern Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAB CDCE FFFE G HIHIJJJI G KLKLMMML G DIDINNNI G OPOPQQQP FFBF| Christmas knows a merry merry place | A |
| Where he goes with fondest face | A |
| Brightest eye brightest hair | B |
| Tell the Mermaid where is that one place | A |
| Where | B |
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| Raleigh 'Tis by Devon's glorious halls | C |
| Whence dear Ben I come again | D |
| Bright of golden roofs and walls | C |
| El Dorado's rare domain | E |
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| Seem those halls when sunlight launches | F |
| Shafts of gold thro' leafless branches | F |
| Where the winter's feathery mantle blanches | F |
| Field and farm and lane | E |
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| CHORUS Christmas knows a merry merry place c | G |
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| Drayton 'Tis where Avon's wood sprites weave | H |
| Through the boughs a lace of rime | I |
| While the bells of Christmas Eve | H |
| Fling for Will the Stratford chime | I |
| O'er the river flags emboss'd | J |
| Rich with flowery runes of frost | J |
| O'er the meads where snowy tufts are toss'd | J |
| Strains of olden time | I |
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| CHORUS Christmas knows a merry merry place c | G |
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| Shakespeare's Friend 'Tis methinks on any ground | K |
| Where our Shakespeare's feet are set | L |
| There smiles Christmas holly crown'd | K |
| With his blithest coronet | L |
| Friendship's face he loveth well | M |
| 'Tis a countenance whose spell | M |
| Sheds a balm o'er every mead and dell | M |
| Where we used to fret | L |
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| CHORUS Christmas knows a merry merry place c | G |
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| Heywood More than all the pictures Ben | D |
| Winter weaves by wood or stream | I |
| Christmas loves our London when | D |
| Rise thy clouds of wassail steam | I |
| Clouds like these that curling take | N |
| Forms of faces gone and wake | N |
| Many a lay from lips we loved and make | N |
| London like a dream | I |
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| CHORUS Christmas knows a merry merry place c | G |
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| Ben Jonson Love's old songs shall never die | O |
| Yet the new shall suffer proof | P |
| Love's old drink of Yule brew I | O |
| Wassail for new love's behoof | P |
| Drink the drink I brew and sing | Q |
| Till the berried branches swing | Q |
| Till our song make all the Mermaid ring | Q |
| Yea from rush to roof | P |
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| FINALE Christmas loves this merry merry place | F |
| Christmas saith with fondest face | F |
| Brightest eye brightest hair | B |
| 'Ben the drink tastes rare of sack and mace | F |
| Rare ' | - |
Theodore Watts-dunton
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