Odes From Horace. - To Leuconoe. Book The First, Ode The Eleventh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFEGHH IJIJDD| LEUCONOE cease presumptuous to inquire | A |
| Of grave Diviner if successive years | B |
| Onward shall roll ere yet the funeral pyre | C |
| For thee and me the hand of Friendship rears | B |
| Ah rather meet with gay and vacant brow | D |
| Whatever youth and time health love and fate allow | D |
| - | |
| If many winters on the naked trees | E |
| Drop in our sight the paly wreaths of frost | F |
| Or this for us the last that from the seas | E |
| Hurls the loud flood on the resounding coast | G |
| Short since thou know'st the longest vital line | H |
| Nurse the near hope and pour the rosy wine | H |
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| E'en while we speak our swiftly passing Youth | I |
| Stretches its wing to cold Oblivion's shore | J |
| Then shall the Future terrify or sooth | I |
| Whose secrets no vain foresight can explore | J |
| The Morrow's faithless promise disavow | D |
| And seize thy only boast the GOLDEN NOW | D |
Anna Seward
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