Laugh and be Merry

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,

Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.

Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.

Laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man.

Laugh and be merry: remember, in olden time.

God made Heaven and Earth for joy He took in a rhyme,

Made them, and filled them full with the strong red wine of

His mirth

The splendid joy of the stars: the joy of the earth.

So we must laugh and drink from the deep blue cup of the sky,

Join the jubilant song of the great stars sweeping by,

Laugh, and battle, and work, and drink of the wine outpoured

In the dear green earth, the sign of the joy of the Lord.

Laugh and be merry together, like brothers akin,

Guesting awhile in the rooms of a beautiful inn,

Glad till the dancing stops, and the lilt of the music ends.

Laugh till the game is played; and be you merry, my friends.

    –John Masefield

Figure of Speech:

Alliteration:

Laugh   and be merry, remember, better the world with a song – w

Better   the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong – w

Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread   the length of a span – l

Laugh   and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man – P

Made   them, and filled them full with the strong red wine of – f

The   splendid joy of the stars: the joy of the earth – s

So   we must laugh and drink from the deep blue cup of the sky – d

Join the jubilant song of the   great stars sweeping by – j,   s

Laugh   and be merry together, like brothers akin – b

Simile:

Laugh   and be merry together, like brothers akin

Metaphor

Made   them, and filled them full with the strong red wine of

So   we must laugh and drink from the deep blue cup of the sky

Join   the jubilant song of the great stars sweeping by

Guesting   awhile in the rooms of a beautiful inn,

Laugh   till the game is played; and be you merry, my friends

Personification:

The   splendid joy of the stars: the joy of the earth

Anaphora:

Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread   the length of a span.

Laugh and be proud to belong to the old   proud pageant of man.

The splendid joy of the stars: the  joy of the earth.

Repetition:

Laugh   and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,

Better   the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong

Laugh   and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man

The   splendid joy of the stars: the joy of the earth

Rhyme Scheme

aabb – Song, wrong; span, man; time,   rhyme; mirth, earth; sky, by; outpored, lord; akin, inn; ends, friends;