Odes Of Anacreon - Ode Ix Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFBB GGHHIIJJKKBBI 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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