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 PPPPPPSEE 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 |
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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 |
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Yet it is wanting | H |
In poesy | G |
No legends haunting | H |
Its vassals be | I |
No tales enchanting | H |
Of chivalry | I |
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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 |
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Who drinks not sparing | H |
Beholdeth he | I |
The great Cid bearing | H |
His banner free | I |
Columbus daring | H |
The unknown Sea | I |
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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 |
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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 |
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See where together | K |
A flagon near | L |
Lie hat with feather | K |
And long rapier | K |
Fine courting weather | K |
O Cavalier | L |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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No vintage alien | P |
For thee or me | I |
Our fount Castalian | P |
Of poesy | G |
Shall wine Australian | P |
None other be | I |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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