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 flashes | A |
| This grape blood fine | B |
| Our beards it splashes | C |
| O comrade mine | B |
| Life dust and ashes | C |
| Were wanting wine | B |
| Amontillado | D |
| Fires heart and eyes | E |
| Champagne the shadow | D |
| Of care defies | E |
| An El Dorado | D |
| In Rhine wine lies | E |
| - | |
| Port has the mintage | F |
| Of generous deeds | G |
| Tokay scorns stintage | F |
| And richly bleeds | G |
| But this great vintage | F |
| The Wine March leads | G |
| - | |
| Yet it is wanting | H |
| In poesy | G |
| No legends haunting | H |
| Its vassals be | I |
| No tales enchanting | H |
| Of chivalry | I |
| - | |
| Spain s grape hath stories | G |
| Its blood the bold | D |
| Conquistadores | G |
| Drank deep of old | D |
| A wine of glories | G |
| A wine of gold | D |
| - | |
| Who drinks not sparing | H |
| Beholdeth he | I |
| The great Cid bearing | H |
| His banner free | I |
| Columbus daring | H |
| The unknown Sea | I |
| - | |
| And haply biding | H |
| In this dream Spain | J |
| Don Quixote riding | H |
| Across the plain | J |
| His squire confiding | H |
| Beside his rein | J |
| - | |
| The wine of France is | G |
| Aglow to day | D |
| With flash of lances | G |
| With feast and fray | D |
| And dark eyed glances | G |
| Of ladies gay | D |
| - | |
| See where together | K |
| A flagon near | L |
| Lie hat with feather | K |
| And long rapier | K |
| Fine courting weather | K |
| O Cavalier | L |
| - | |
| Bright Rhenish gleaming | H |
| Moon white Perchance | G |
| Thy wave clear beaming | H |
| Still guards Romance | G |
| Not dead but dreaming | H |
| In spell bound trance | G |
| - | |
| Not in Rhine water | K |
| But Rhine wine fair | M |
| Sir Rupert sought her | K |
| As bards declare | M |
| The Rhine King s daughter | K |
| With golden hair | M |
| - | |
| Still neath its smiling | H |
| Wave s amber rings | G |
| Men sweetly wiling | H |
| From earthly things | G |
| Her song beguiling | H |
| The Loreley sings | G |
| - | |
| Your cup wild siren | N |
| That Deutschland drains | G |
| Her heart of iron | O |
| Moved by your strains | G |
| No blood shall fire in | P |
| Australian veins | G |
| - | |
| Nor yours whose charm is | G |
| Your topaz eyne | P |
| Nor yours whose armies | G |
| In gold caps shine | P |
| Shall charm or harm us | G |
| Eh comrade mine | P |
| - | |
| No vintage alien | P |
| For thee or me | I |
| Our fount Castalian | P |
| Of poesy | G |
| Shall wine Australian | P |
| None other be | I |
| - | |
| Then place your hand in | P |
| This hand of mine | P |
| And while we stand in | P |
| Her brave sunshine | P |
| Pledge deep our land in | P |
| Our land s own wine | P |
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| It has no glamour | K |
| Of old romance | G |
| Of war and amour | K |
| In Spain or France | G |
| Its poets stammer | K |
| As yet perchance | G |
| - | |
| But he may wholly | I |
| Become a seer | K |
| Who quaffs it slowly | I |
| For he shall hear | K |
| Though faintly lowly | I |
| Yet sweet and clear | K |
| - | |
| The axes ringing | H |
| On mountain sides | G |
| The wool boats swinging | H |
| Down Darling tides | G |
| The drovers singing | H |
| Where Clancy rides | G |
| - | |
| The miners driving | H |
| The stockman s strife | Q |
| All sounds conniving | H |
| To tell the rife | Q |
| Rich rude strong striving | H |
| Australian life | Q |
| - | |
| Once more your hand in | P |
| This hand of mine | P |
| And while we stand in | P |
| The brave sunshine | P |
| Pledge deep our land in | P |
| Our land s own wine | P |
Victor James Daley
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