Song To Bacchus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDECC DCDCCC FCFCCC| Come along jolly Bacchus no longer delay | A |
| See'st thou not how the table with bottles is crown'd | B |
| See'st thou not how thy votaries impatient to pay | A |
| Their devotion to thee are all waiting around | B |
| O come then propitious to our invocation | C |
| To preside of thy rites at the solemnization | C |
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| Hark the voice of Champagne from its prison set free | D |
| And the music of glasses that merrily ring | E |
| Thy arrival announce and invite us to glee | D |
| With what gladness we welcome thee vine crowned King | E |
| To honour thee Bacchus we pour a libation | C |
| And the lofty roof echoes our loud salutation | C |
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| On that wine loaded altar erected to thee | D |
| Sherry burgundy claret invitingly shine | C |
| While all thy rich gifts thus collected we see | D |
| We greet thy munificence boundless divine | C |
| From these we already inhale animation | C |
| Our hearts and heads warmth and our souls elevation | C |
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| As thy nectar kind Bacchus more copiously flows | F |
| We purge off the cold dregs that are earthy profane | C |
| Each breast with thy own godlike character glows | F |
| There truth generosity happiness reign | C |
| Hail Bacchus we hail thee in high exultation | C |
| Thou hast blest us kind God with thy full inspiration | C |
Thomas Oldham
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