One Bumper At Parting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFGHGH IJIJGKGKGHGH LMLMLNLNGHGH| One bumper at parting though many | A |
| Have circled the board since we met | B |
| The fullest the saddest of any | A |
| Remains to be crown'd by us yet | B |
| The sweetness that pleasure hath in it | C |
| Is always so slow to come forth | D |
| That seldom alas till the minute | E |
| It dies do we know half its worth | F |
| But come may our life's happy measure | G |
| Be all of such moments made up | H |
| They're born on the bosom of Pleasure | G |
| Thy die 'midst the tears of the cup | H |
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| As onward we journey how pleasant | I |
| To pause and inhabit awhile | J |
| Those few sunny spots like the present | I |
| That 'mid the dull wilderness smile | J |
| But Time like a pitiless master | G |
| Cries Onward and spurs the gay hours | K |
| Ah never doth Time travel faster | G |
| Than when his way lies among flowers | K |
| But come may our life's happy measure | G |
| Be all of such moments made up | H |
| They're born on the bosom of Pleasure | G |
| They die 'midst the tears of the cup | H |
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| We saw how the sun look'd in sinking | L |
| The waters beneath him how bright | M |
| And now let our farewell of drinking | L |
| Resemble that farewell of light | M |
| You saw how he finish'd by darting | L |
| His beam o'er a deep billow's brim | N |
| So fill up let's shine at our parting | L |
| In full liquid glory like him | N |
| And oh may our life's happy measure | G |
| Of moments like this be made up | H |
| 'Twas born on the bosom of Pleasure | G |
| It dies 'mid the tears of the cup | H |
Thomas Moore
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