Odes From Horace. - [1]to Titus Valgius. Book The Second, Ode The Ninth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFEFGG EHEHII JKJKLL EEEEJJ| Not ceaseless falls the heavy shower | A |
| That drenches deep the furrow'd lea | B |
| Nor do continual tempests pour | C |
| On the vex'd Caspian's billowy sea | B |
| Nor yet the ice in silent horror stands | D |
| Thro' all the passing months on pale Armenia's Lands | D |
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| Fierce storms do not for ever bend | E |
| The Mountain's vast and labouring oak | F |
| Nor from the ash its foliage rend | E |
| With ruthless whirl and widowing stroke | F |
| But Valgius thou with grief's eternal lays | G |
| Mournest thy vanish'd joys in MYSTES' shorten'd days | G |
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| When Vesper trembles in the west | E |
| Or flies before the orient sun | H |
| Rise the lone sorrows of thy breast | E |
| Not thus did aged Nestor shun | H |
| Consoling strains nor always sought the tomb | I |
| Where sunk his filial Hopes in life and glory's bloom | I |
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| Not thus the lovely Troilus slain | J |
| His Parents wept the Princely Boy | K |
| Nor thus his Sisters mourn'd in vain | J |
| The blasted Flower of sinking Troy | K |
| Cease then thy fond complaints Augustus' fame | L |
| The new Cesarian wreaths let thy lov'd voice proclaim | L |
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| So shall the listening World be told | E |
| Medus and cold Niphates guide | E |
| With all their mighty Realms controul'd | E |
| Their late proud waves in narrower tide | E |
| That in scant space their steeds the Scythians rein | J |
| Nor dare transgress the bounds our Victor Arms ordain | J |
Anna Seward
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