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