Odes Of Anacreon - Ode L Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEFFGGHHII JJKKLLMNBBOOJJPPQQRR SSTTGG| A | |
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| When wine I quaff before my eyes | B |
| Dreams of poetic glory rise | B |
| And freshened by the goblet's dews | C |
| My soul invokes the heavenly Muse | C |
| When wine I drink all sorrow's o'er | D |
| I think of doubts and fears no more | E |
| But scatter to the railing wind | F |
| Each gloomy phantom of the mind | F |
| When I drink wine the ethereal boy | G |
| Bacchus himself partakes my joy | G |
| And while we dance through vernal bowers | H |
| Whose every breath comes fresh from flowers | H |
| In wine he makes my senses swim | I |
| Till the gale breathes of naught but him | I |
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| Again I drink and lo there seems | J |
| A calmer light to fill my dreams | J |
| The lately ruffled wreath I spread | K |
| With steadier hand around my head | K |
| Then take the lyre and sing how blest | L |
| The life of him who lives at rest | L |
| But then comes witching wine again | M |
| With glorious woman in its train | N |
| And while rich perfumes round me rise | B |
| That seem the breath of woman's sighs | B |
| Bright shapes of every hue and form | O |
| Upon my kindling fancy swarm | O |
| Till the whole world of beauty seems | J |
| To crowd into my dazzled dreams | J |
| When thus I drink my heart refines | P |
| And rises as the cup declines | P |
| Rises in the genial flow | Q |
| That none but social spirits know | Q |
| When with young revellers round the bowl | R |
| The old themselves grow young in soul | R |
| Oh when I drink true joy is mine | S |
| There's bliss in every drop of wine | S |
| All other blessings I have known | T |
| I scarcely dared to call my own | T |
| But this the Fates can ne'er destroy | G |
| Till death o'ershadows all my joy | G |
Thomas Moore
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