Tempora Mutantur Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CD EE AA FF E F GG GG| 'The world is dull ' I cried in my despair | A |
| 'Its myths and fables are no longer fair | A |
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| 'Roll back thy centuries O Father Time | B |
| To Greece transport me in her golden prime | B |
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| 'Give back the beautiful old Gods again | C |
| The sportive Nymphs the Dryad's jocund train | D |
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| 'Pan piping on his reeds the Naiades | E |
| The Sirens singing by the sleepy seas | E |
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| 'Nay show me but a Gorgon and I'll dare | A |
| To lift mine eyes to her peculiar hair | A |
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| ' The fatal horrors of her snaky pate | F |
| That stiffen men into a stony state | F |
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| 'And die erecting as my soul goes hence | E |
| A statue of myself without expense ' | - |
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| Straight as I spoke I heard the voice of Fate | F |
| 'Look up my lad the Gorgon sisters wait ' | - |
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| Raising my eyes I saw Medusa stand | G |
| Stheno Euryale on either hand | G |
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| I gazed unpetrified and unappalled | G |
| The girls had aged and were entirely bald | G |
Ambrose Bierce
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