The Reply Of Q. Horatius Flaccus To A Roman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HGHG IJII KHKH LMLM HHH NONO HHHH BPBP OOOO| Good friends you urge my Odes grow trite | A |
| And that of worthless station | B |
| Of fleeting youth and joy I write | A |
| With endless iteration | B |
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| But say in mortals base or great | C |
| Have you a change detected | D |
| Are they when victors less elate | C |
| When vanquished less dejected | E |
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| Do they no more in mundane mire | F |
| For golden garbage scramble | G |
| Or but companioned with the lyre | F |
| Up twisting Anio ramble | G |
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| Hath fortune ceased to prove a jade | H |
| Hath favour waxed less fickle | G |
| Hath shamed Bellona dropped her blade | H |
| Or Death put up his sickle | G |
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| Doth age no longer rime the hair | I |
| Finds Virtue always supper | J |
| Or when cit rides a Knight doth Care | I |
| No more bestride the crupper | I |
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| Do not the rosy hours wax pale | K |
| New loves old loves disherit | H |
| And sleight of golden showers prevail | K |
| 'Gainst Danae's brazen turret | H |
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| Sooth verbum sap But then Jove knows | L |
| Men are not wise but foolish | M |
| Whether they scan Soracte's snows | L |
| Or those near Ballachulish | M |
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| Still still they hug the bestial sty | H |
| And have not changed one wee bit | H |
| Unpleasing truth which Repeti | H |
| Ta decies non placebit '' | - |
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| Ask such to share my Sabine meal | N |
| To twine the parsley classic | O |
| For such to break the Manlian seal | N |
| And liberate my Massic | O |
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| A pretty tale Why ken you not | H |
| Good friends as lately showed I | H |
| In verse already you've forgot | H |
| Profanum vulgus odi | H |
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| Fair maid or Minister I dine | B |
| Toast Rome or Alma Venus | P |
| When Lydia will not kiss my wine | B |
| Why then I ask Maecenas | P |
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| For such and self the chords I strike | O |
| Of wisdom love and scorning | O |
| And if the world my themes dislike | O |
| Well gentlemen Good morning | O |
Alfred Austin
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