Odes Of Anacreon - Ode Ix Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFBB GGHHIIJJKKBB| I pray thee by the gods above | A |
| Give me the mighty bowl I love | A |
| And let me sing in wild delight | B |
| I will I will be mad to night | B |
| Alcmaeon once as legends tell | C |
| Was frenzied by the fiends of hell | C |
| Orestes too with naked tread | D |
| Frantic paced the mountain head | D |
| And why a murdered mother's shade | E |
| Haunted them still where'er they strayed | E |
| But ne'er could I a murderer be | F |
| The grape alone shall bleed for me | F |
| Yet can I shout with wild delight | B |
| I will I will be mad to night | B |
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| Alcides' self in days of yore | G |
| Imbrued his hands in youthful gore | G |
| And brandished with a maniac joy | H |
| The quiver of the expiring boy | H |
| And Ajax with tremendous shield | I |
| Infuriate scoured the guiltless field | I |
| But I whose hands no weapon ask | J |
| No armor but this joyous flask | J |
| The trophy of whose frantic hours | K |
| Is but a scattered wreath of flowers | K |
| Ev'n I can sing with wild delight | B |
| I will I will be mad to night | B |
Thomas Moore
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