Diffugere Nives (horace, Odes 4.7) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FAFA GAGA HIHI JKJL MDMD| The snows are fled away leaves on the shaws | A |
| And grasses in the mead renew their birth | B |
| The river to the river bed withdraws | A |
| And altered is the fashion of the earth | B |
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| The Nymphs and Graces three put off their fear | C |
| And unapparelled in the woodland play | D |
| The swift hour and the brief prime of the year | C |
| Say to the soul Thou wast not born for aye | E |
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| Thaw follows frost hard on the heel of spring | F |
| Treads summer sure to die for hard on hers | A |
| Comes autumn with his apples scattering | F |
| Then back to wintertide when nothing stirs | A |
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| But oh whate'er the sky led seasons mar | G |
| Moon upon moon rebuilds it with her beams | A |
| Come we where Tullus and where Ancus are | G |
| And good Aeneas we are dust and dreams | A |
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| Torquatus if the gods in heaven shall add | H |
| The morrow to the day what tongue has told | I |
| Feast then thy heart for what thy heart has had | H |
| The fingers of no heir will ever hold | I |
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| When thou descendest once the shades among | J |
| The stern assize and equal judgment o'er | K |
| Not thy long lineage nor thy golden tongue | J |
| No nor thy righteousness shall friend thee more | L |
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| Night holds Hippolytus the pure of stain | M |
| Diana steads him nothing he must stay | D |
| And Theseus leaves Pirithous in the chain | M |
| The love of comrades cannot take away | D |
A. E. Housman
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