Odes From Horace. - To Lyce, On Her Refusing To Admit His Visits. Book The Third, Ode The Tenth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDB EEFGGF HHIJJI KKLMNL HHOPPO MNQRRQ KFSTTS| Now had you drank cold Tanais' wave | A |
| Whose streams the drear vale slowly lave | A |
| A barbarous Scythian's Bride | B |
| Yet Lyce might you grieve to hear | C |
| Your Lover braves the winds severe | D |
| That pierce his aching side | B |
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| O listen to the howling groves | E |
| That labour o'er your proud alcoves | E |
| And hear the jarring door | F |
| Mark how the star at eve that rose | G |
| Has brightly glaz'd the settled snows | G |
| While every leaf is hoar | F |
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| Gay Venus hates this cold disdain | H |
| Cease then its rigors to maintain | H |
| That sprightly joys impede | I |
| Lest the strain'd cord with which you bind | J |
| The freedom of my amorous mind | J |
| In rapid whirl recede | I |
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| Born of a jocund Tuscan Sire | K |
| Did he transmit his ardent fire | K |
| That like Ulysses' Queen | L |
| His beauteous Daughter still should prove | M |
| Relentless to the sighs of Love | N |
| With frozen heart and mien | L |
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| If nor blue cheek of shivering Swain | H |
| Nor yet his richest gifts obtain | H |
| Your smile and soft'ning brow | O |
| Nor if a faithless Husband's rage | P |
| For a gay Syren of the stage | P |
| And broken nuptial vow | O |
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| If weak e'en Jealousy should prove | M |
| To bend your heart to truer love | N |
| Yet pity these my pains | Q |
| O Nymph than oaks more hard and fierce | R |
| As snakes that Afric's thickets pierce | R |
| Those terrors of the plains | Q |
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| When heavy falls the pattering shower | K |
| And streaming spouts their torrents pour | F |
| Upon my shrinking head | S |
| Not always shall wild Love command | T |
| These limbs obsequiously to stand | T |
| Beneath your dropping shed | S |
Anna Seward
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