Bacchus: Or, The Vines Of Lesbos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDD EEFFGGHHII JKLLMN OOPP QRSSTT UUAAVV WWXXYYVV ZZPPA2A2 B2B2A2A2 C2C2D2D2E2E2 F2F2G2G2A2A2A2A2VV H2H2I2I2VV J2K2L2L2 PPKKDDAs Bacchus ranging at his leisure | A |
Io Bacchus king of pleasure | A |
Charm'd the wide world with drink and dances | B |
And all his thousand airy fancies | C |
Alas he quite forgot the while | D |
His fav'rite vines in Lesbos isle | D |
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The God returning ere they died | E |
Ah see my jolly Fawns he cried | E |
The leaves but hardly born are red | F |
And the bare arms for pity spread | F |
The beasts afford a rich manure | G |
Fly my boys and bring the cure | G |
Up the mountains down the vales | H |
Thro' the woods and o'er the dales | H |
For this if full the clusters grow | I |
Your bowls shall doubly overflow | I |
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So chear'd with more officious haste | J |
They bring the dung of ev'ry beast | K |
The loads they wheel the roots they bare | L |
They lay the rich manure with care | L |
While oft he calls to labour hard | M |
And names as oft the red reward | N |
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The plants revive new leaves appear | O |
The thick'ning clusters load the year | O |
The season swiftly purple grew | P |
The grapes hung dangling deep with blue | P |
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A vineyard ripe a day serene | Q |
Now calls them all to work again | R |
The Fawns thro' ev'ry furrow shoot | S |
To load their flaskets with the fruit | S |
And now the vintage early trod | T |
The wines invite the jovial God | T |
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Strow the roses raise the song | U |
See the master comes along | U |
Lusty Revel join'd with Laughter | A |
Whim and Frolic follow after | A |
The Fawns beside the vatts remain | V |
To shew the work and reap the gain | V |
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All around and all around | W |
They sit to riot on the ground | W |
A vessel stands amidst the ring | X |
And here they laugh and there they sing | X |
Or rise a jolly jolly band | Y |
And dance about it hand in hand | Y |
Dance about and shout amain | V |
Then sit to laugh and sing again | V |
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But as an antient author sung | Z |
The vine manur'd with ev'ry dung | Z |
From ev'ry creature strangely drew | P |
A tang of brutal nature too | P |
'Twas hence in drinking on the lawns | A2 |
New turns of humour seiz'd the Fawns | A2 |
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Here one was crying out by Jove | B2 |
Another fight me in the grove | B2 |
This wounds a friend and that the trees | A2 |
The Lion's temper reign'd in these | A2 |
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Another grins and leaps about | C2 |
And keeps a merry world of rout | C2 |
And talks impertinently free | D2 |
And twenty talk the same as he | D2 |
Chatt'ring airy idle kind | E2 |
These take the Monkey turn of mind | E2 |
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Here one who saw the nymphs that stood | F2 |
To peep upon them from the wood | F2 |
Steals off to try if any maid | G2 |
Be lagging late beneath the shade | G2 |
While loose discourse another raises | A2 |
In naked Nature's plainest phrases | A2 |
And ev'ry glass he drinks enjoys | A2 |
With change of nonsense lust and noise | A2 |
Mad and careless hot and vain | V |
Such as these the Goat retain | V |
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Another drinks and casts it up | H2 |
And drinks and wants another cup | H2 |
Solemn silent and sedate | I2 |
Ever long and ever late | I2 |
Full of meats and full of wine | V |
This takes his temper from the swine | V |
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Here some who hardly seem to breathe | J2 |
Drink and hang the jaw beneath | K2 |
Gaping tender apt to weep | L2 |
Their natures alter'd by the sheep | L2 |
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'Twas thus one autumn all the crew | P |
If what the Poets sing be true | P |
While Bacchus made the merry feast | K |
Inclin'd to one or other beast | K |
And since 'tis said for many a mile | D |
He spread the vines of Lesbos isle | D |
Thomas Parnell
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