Song Of The Two Cupbearers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDEEFCFC GHGH IJKJ LMLD A NONO LOLO PQRQ SLSL| FIRST CUPBEARER | A |
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| Drink of this cup Osiris sips | B |
| The same in his halls below | C |
| And the same he gives to cool the lips | B |
| Of the dead who downward go | C |
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| Drink of this cup the water within | D |
| Is fresh from Lethe's stream | E |
| 'Twill make the past with all its sin | D |
| And all its pain and sorrows seem | E |
| Like a long forgotten dream | E |
| The pleasure whose charms | F |
| Are steeped in woe | C |
| The knowledge that harms | F |
| The soul to know | C |
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| The hope that bright | G |
| As the lake of the waste | H |
| Allures the sight | G |
| And mocks the taste | H |
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| The love that binds | I |
| Its innocent wreath | J |
| Where the serpent winds | K |
| In venom beneath | J |
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| All that of evil or false by thee | L |
| Hath ever been known or seen | M |
| Shalt melt away in this cup and be | L |
| Forgot as it never had been | D |
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| SECOND CUPBEARER | A |
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| Drink of this cup when Isis led | N |
| Her boy of old to the beaming sky | O |
| She mingled a draught divine and said | N |
| Drink of this cup thou'lt never die | O |
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| Thus do I say and sing to thee | L |
| Heir of that boundless heaven on high | O |
| Though frail and fallen and lost thou be | L |
| Drink of this cup thou'lt never die | O |
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| And Memory too with her dreams shall come | P |
| Dreams of a former happier day | Q |
| When heaven was still the spirit's home | R |
| And her wings had not yet fallen away | Q |
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| Glimpses of glory ne'er forgot | S |
| That tell like gleams on a sunset sea | L |
| What once hath been what now is not | S |
| But oh what again shall brightly be | L |
Thomas Moore
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