Over The Wine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB AADAAD EEFCCF EEGHHG EEIHHI CCJKKJ AALMML AABHHBVery often when I'm drinking | A |
Of the old days I am thinking | A |
Of the good old days when living was a Joy | B |
And each morning brought new Pleasure | C |
And each night brought Dreams of Treasure | C |
And I thank the Lord that I was once a Boy | B |
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When I hear the old hands spinning | A |
Yams of gold there was for winning | A |
In the Roaring Days that now so silent are | D |
And my brain is whirling reeling | A |
With their legends comes the feeling | A |
That the Rainbow Gold I knew was finer far | D |
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For not all the trains in motion | E |
All the ships that sail the ocean | E |
With their cargoes all the money in the mart | F |
Could purchase for an hour | C |
Such a treasure as the Flower | C |
As the Flower of Hope that blossomed in my heart | F |
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Now I sit and smile and listen | E |
To my friends whose eyes still glisten | E |
Though their beards are showing threads of silver grey | G |
As they talk of Fame and Glory | H |
The old old pathetic story | H |
While they drink Good luck to luck that keeps away | G |
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When I hear a politician | E |
Speak of honours and position | E |
And the time to come when he will sit on high | I |
Then I feel a sovran pity | H |
For this species of banditti | H |
Raising trouble while the golden time goes by | I |
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Long ago I did discover | C |
It was fine to be a lover | C |
But the heartache and the worry spoil the game | J |
Now I think like an old vandal | K |
That the game's not worth the candle | K |
And I know some other vandals think the same | J |
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And I hate the cant of striving | A |
Slaving planning and contriving | A |
Struggling onward for a paltry little prize | L |
O it fills my heart with sorrow | M |
This mad grasping for To morrow | M |
While To day from gold to purple dusks and dies | L |
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Very often when I'm drinking | A |
Of the old days I am thinking | A |
Of the good old days when living was a Joy | B |
When I see folk marching dreary | H |
To the tune of Miserere | H |
Then I thank the Lord that I am still a Boy | B |
Victor James Daley
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