In A Wine Cellar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBDEDEDE FGFGFG HGHIHI GDGDGD HIHIHI HJHJHJ GDGDGD KLKKKL HGHGHG KMKMKM HGHGHG NGOGPG GPGPGP PIPGPI PPPPPP KGKGKG IKIKIK HGHGHG HQHQHQ PPPPPP

SEE how it flashesA
This grape blood fineB
Our beards it splashesC
O comrade mineB
Life dust and ashesC
Were wanting wineB
AmontilladoD
Fires heart and eyesE
Champagne the shadowD
Of care defiesE
An El DoradoD
In Rhine wine liesE
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Port has the mintageF
Of generous deedsG
Tokay scorns stintageF
And richly bleedsG
But this great vintageF
The Wine March leadsG
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Yet it is wantingH
In poesyG
No legends hauntingH
Its vassals beI
No tales enchantingH
Of chivalryI
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Spain s grape hath storiesG
Its blood the boldD
ConquistadoresG
Drank deep of oldD
A wine of gloriesG
A wine of goldD
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Who drinks not sparingH
Beholdeth heI
The great Cid bearingH
His banner freeI
Columbus daringH
The unknown SeaI
-
And haply bidingH
In this dream SpainJ
Don Quixote ridingH
Across the plainJ
His squire confidingH
Beside his reinJ
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The wine of France isG
Aglow to dayD
With flash of lancesG
With feast and frayD
And dark eyed glancesG
Of ladies gayD
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See where togetherK
A flagon nearL
Lie hat with featherK
And long rapierK
Fine courting weatherK
O CavalierL
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Bright Rhenish gleamingH
Moon white PerchanceG
Thy wave clear beamingH
Still guards RomanceG
Not dead but dreamingH
In spell bound tranceG
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Not in Rhine waterK
But Rhine wine fairM
Sir Rupert sought herK
As bards declareM
The Rhine King s daughterK
With golden hairM
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Still neath its smilingH
Wave s amber ringsG
Men sweetly wilingH
From earthly thingsG
Her song beguilingH
The Loreley singsG
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Your cup wild sirenN
That Deutschland drainsG
Her heart of ironO
Moved by your strainsG
No blood shall fire inP
Australian veinsG
-
Nor yours whose charm isG
Your topaz eyneP
Nor yours whose armiesG
In gold caps shineP
Shall charm or harm usG
Eh comrade mineP
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No vintage alienP
For thee or meI
Our fount CastalianP
Of poesyG
Shall wine AustralianP
None other beI
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Then place your hand inP
This hand of mineP
And while we stand inP
Her brave sunshineP
Pledge deep our land inP
Our land s own wineP
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It has no glamourK
Of old romanceG
Of war and amourK
In Spain or FranceG
Its poets stammerK
As yet perchanceG
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But he may whollyI
Become a seerK
Who quaffs it slowlyI
For he shall hearK
Though faintly lowlyI
Yet sweet and clearK
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The axes ringingH
On mountain sidesG
The wool boats swingingH
Down Darling tidesG
The drovers singingH
Where Clancy ridesG
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The miners drivingH
The stockman s strifeQ
All sounds connivingH
To tell the rifeQ
Rich rude strong strivingH
Australian lifeQ
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Once more your hand inP
This hand of mineP
And while we stand inP
The brave sunshineP
Pledge deep our land inP
Our land s own wineP

Victor James Daley



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