Odes From Horace. - To Liguria. Book The Fourth, Ode The Tenth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAB DEDDE FGFFG HIHHJ FKFFK LMLLN| O thou exulting in the charms | A |
| Nature with lavish bounty showers | B |
| When youth no more thy spirit warms | C |
| And stealing age thy pride alarms | A |
| For fleeting graces and for waning powers | B |
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| When all the shining locks that now | D |
| Adown those ivory shoulders bound | E |
| With deaden'd colour shade thy brow | D |
| And fall as from th' autumnal bough | D |
| Leaves that rude winds have scatter'd on the ground | E |
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| And on that cheek the tints that shame | F |
| May's orient light and Summer's rose | G |
| Dim as yon taper's sullen flame | F |
| Shall in a dusky red proclaim | F |
| That not one hue in wonted lustre glows | G |
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| When wrinkles o'er LIGURIA's face | H |
| Their daily strengthening furrows lead | I |
| When faithful mirrors cease to place | H |
| In her charm'd sight each blooming grace | H |
| And will no more her heart's proud triumph feed | J |
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| Then the chang'd Maid with secret shame | F |
| Shall thus the past and present chide | K |
| O why amid the loud acclaim | F |
| That gave my rising charms to Fame | F |
| Swell'd this coy bosom with disdainful pride | K |
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| Or why since now the wish to yield | L |
| Steals pensive thro' each melting vein | M |
| The ice dissolv'd that scorn congeal'd | L |
| And every tender thought reveal'd | L |
| Why vanish'd BEAUTY com'st not thou again | N |
Anna Seward
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