To Virgil, Written At The Request Of The Manuans For The Nineteenth Centenary Of Virgil's Deat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AAGA GGBG CFAF HAGA GBGB BIJI AGAG KKBK| Roman Virgil thou that singest | A |
| Ilion's lofty temples robed in fire | B |
| Ilion falling Rome arising | C |
| wars and filial faith and Dido's pyre | B |
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| Landscape lover lord of language | D |
| more than he that sang the Works and Days | E |
| All the chosen coin of fancy | F |
| flashing out from many a golden phrase | E |
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| Thou that singest wheat and woodland | A |
| tilth and vineyard hive and horse and herd | A |
| All the charm of all the Muses | G |
| often flowering in a lonely word | A |
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| Poet of the happy Tityrus | G |
| piping underneath his beechen bowers | G |
| Poet of the poet satyr | B |
| whom the laughing shepherd bound with flowers | G |
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| Chanter of the Pollio glorying | C |
| in the blissful years again to be | F |
| Summers of the snakeless meadow | A |
| unlaborious earth and oarless sea | F |
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| Thou that se euml st Universal | H |
| Nature moved by Universal Mind | A |
| Thou majestic in thy sadness | G |
| at the doubtful doom of human kind | A |
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| Light among the vanish'd ages | G |
| star that gildest yet this phantom shore | B |
| Golden branch amid the shadows | G |
| kings and realms that pass to rise no more | B |
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| Now thy Forum roars no longer | B |
| fallen every purple C sar's dome | I |
| Tho' thine ocean roll of rhythm | J |
| sound forever of Imperial Rome | I |
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| Now the Rome of slaves hath perish'd | A |
| and the Rome of freemen holds her place | G |
| I from out the Northern Island | A |
| sunder'd once from all the human race | G |
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| I salute thee Mantovano | K |
| I that loved thee since my day began | K |
| Wielder of the stateliest measure | B |
| ever moulded by the lips of man | K |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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