Odes Of Anacreon - Ode Xxxvi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFDDGGHHIIJJ KL| A | |
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| If hoarded gold possest the power | B |
| To lengthen life's too fleeting hour | B |
| And purchase from the hand of death | C |
| A little span a moment's breath | C |
| How I would love the precious ore | D |
| And every hour should swell my store | D |
| That when death came with shadowy pinion | E |
| To waft me to his bleak dominion | E |
| I might by bribes my doom delay | F |
| And bid him call some distant day | F |
| But since not all earth's golden store | D |
| Can buy for us one bright hour more | D |
| Why should we vainly mourn our fate | G |
| Or sigh at life's uncertain date | G |
| Nor wealth nor grandeur can illume | H |
| The silent midnight of the tomb | H |
| No give to others hoarded treasures | I |
| Mine be the brilliant round of pleasures | I |
| The goblet rich the board of friends | J |
| Whose social souls the goblet blends | J |
| And mine while yet I've life to live | K |
| Those joys that love alone can give | L |
Thomas Moore
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