A Tavern Feast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDDEDEFBFBGDHD IJIJDKDLBMBNODODPJPJ BQBQRSRTUVUVWAXADDDD DCDYZBYB| Gay Bacchus liking B s wine | A |
| A noble meal bespoke | B |
| for ye guests that were to dine | A |
| Brought Comus Love Joke | B |
| The God near Cupid drew his chair | C |
| Joke by Comus plact | D |
| Thus wine makes Love forget his care | C |
| Mirth exalts a feast | D |
| To make it more deserve ye God | D |
| Each sweet engaging Grace | E |
| Put on some cloaths to come abroad | D |
| took a waiters place | E |
| Then Cupid namd for ev'ry glass | F |
| A Lady of ye sky | B |
| Bacchus swore he'd drink ye ye Lass | F |
| had it bumper high | B |
| Fat Comus tossd his brimmers o're | G |
| allways gott ye most | D |
| For Joke took care to fill him more | H |
| When ere he missd ye toast | D |
| They calld drunk at evry touch | I |
| calld drunk again | J |
| if ye Gods can take too much | I |
| Tis said they did so then | J |
| Free Jests ran all the table round | D |
| with ye wine conspire | K |
| While they by sly reflections wound | D |
| To Set their heads afire | L |
| Plump Bacchus little Cupid stung | B |
| By reckning his deceits | M |
| Cupid mockd his stammring tongue | B |
| all his stagg'ring gates | N |
| Joke drolld on Comus Greedy ways | O |
| tales without a Jest | D |
| Comus calld his witty plays | O |
| But waggerys at best | D |
| such talking sett them all at odds | P |
| had I Homers pen | J |
| Ide sing you how they drunk like Gods | P |
| how they fought like men | J |
| To part ye fray the Graces fly | B |
| Who make them soon agree | Q |
| had ye furys selves been nigh | B |
| They still were three to three | Q |
| Bacchus appeasd letts Cupid up | R |
| gave him back his bow | S |
| But kept some darts to stirr ye Cup | R |
| Where Sack Sugar flow | T |
| Joke taking Comus rosy crown | U |
| In triumph wore ye prize | V |
| thrice in mirth he pushd him down | U |
| As thrice he strove to rise | V |
| Then Cupid sought ye mirtle grove | W |
| Where Venus did recline | A |
| Beauty close embracing Love | X |
| They Joyn to rail at Wine | A |
| Comus loudly cursing witt | D |
| Rolld off to some retreat | D |
| Where boon companions gravely sitt | D |
| In dull unwieldy state | D |
| Bacchus Joke who stay behind | D |
| For one fresh glass prepare | C |
| kiss are exceeding kind | D |
| vow to be sincere | Y |
| But part in time whoever here | Z |
| Are couchd within my song | B |
| For tho the friendship may be dear | Y |
| It cant continue long | B |
Thomas Parnell
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