The Chimes Play "life's A Bumper!" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDECC FGFGCC| Awake I'm off to cities far away | A |
| I said and rose on peradventures bent | B |
| The chimes played Life's a Bumper on that day | A |
| To the measure of my walking as I went | B |
| Their sweetness frisked and floated on the lea | C |
| As they played out Life's a Bumper there to me | C |
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| Awake I said I go to take a bride | D |
| The sun arose behind me ruby red | E |
| As I journeyed townwards from the countryside | D |
| The chiming bells saluting near ahead | E |
| Their sweetness swelled in tripping tings of glee | C |
| As they played out Life's a Bumper there to me | C |
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| Again arise I seek a turfy slope | F |
| And go forth slowly on an autumn noon | G |
| And there I lay her who has been my hope | F |
| And think O may I follow hither soon | G |
| While on the wind the chimes come cheerily | C |
| Playing out Life's a Bumper there to me | C |
Thomas Hardy
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DJH '37: I imagine ' Life's a Bumper' to have been a ditty sung and played in the early 19-teens when Hardy wrote this poem. Can anyone confirm? Indicate what the slang or feel or associations were to 'bumper'? Dodgems? Bumper cars?
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