Drunken Lips - Anacreontic couplets
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Anacreontic couplets are a form of poetry named after the ancient Greek poet Anacreon. These couplets typically focus on themes of love, beauty, and the joys of wine. They are characterized by their light and celebratory nature.
The Anacreontic Ode is proof that an ode need not be long and lofty. The Greek poet Anacreon often wrote odes in praise of pleasure and drink, a Dithyramb or Skolion. Often the odes were made up of 7 syllable, rhymed couplets known as Anacreontic couplets.
The Anacreontic couplet is:
stanzaic, written in any number of couplets,
preferably short. The Anacreontic Ode is often made up of a series of Anacreontic couplets.
syllabic, 7 syllables for each line.
rhymed. aa bb etc.
composed to celebrate the joys of drinking and love making.
May one love you like Shakespeare?
Write verses to bring you near.
In delicate sighless sips,
taste wine from your drunken lips,
as drops induce and seduce,
become drunk from your sweet juice.
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