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Original poem reprinted online here:   "A Drinking Song" by William Butler Yeats Originally read: October 2, 2013 More information about the Poet: William Butler Yeats So I don't know much about drinking songs.  I went here  to listen to some drinking songs.  Damn, depressing (or the ones I listened to: "O Danny Boy", "Seven Drunken Nights" "Molly Malone" -- it could've been my luck in selection).  If I was drinking, I wouldn't want to hear them. I think this poem, and some drinking songs, show why a person is drinking -- kind of like kicking themselves repeatedly for whatever reason: reliving the pain to dull it again, or to remember something good at least. "Wine comes in at the mouth / And love comes in at the eye."  So the rhyme scheme of this poem is an ababab rhyme scheme to accentuate the separation, but this starts out wistful enough, and then, "That's all we shall know for truth / Before we grow old and die...