Odes From Horace. - To Posthumus. Book The Second, Ode The Fourteenth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFEFGG HIJIKK LMNMOO FPFPQQ RSRSTT| Alas my Posthumus the Years | A |
| Unpausing glide away | B |
| Nor suppliant hands nor fervent prayers | C |
| Their fleeting pace delay | B |
| Nor smooth the brow when furrowing lines descend | D |
| Nor from the stoop of Age the faltering Frame defend | D |
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| Time goads us on relentless Sire | E |
| On to the shadowy Shape that stands | F |
| Terrific on the funeral pyre | E |
| Waving the already kindled brands | F |
| Thou canst not slacken this reluctant speed | G |
| Tho' still on Pluto's shrine thy Hecatomb should bleed | G |
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| Beyond the dim Lake's mournful flood | H |
| That skirts the verge of mortal light | I |
| He chains the Forms on earth that stood | J |
| Proud and gigantic in their might | I |
| That gloomy Lake o'er whose oblivious tide | K |
| Kings Consuls Pontiffs Slaves in ghastly silence glide | K |
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| In vain the bleeding field we shun | L |
| In vain the loud and whelming wave | M |
| And as autumnal winds come on | N |
| And wither'd leaves bestrew the cave | M |
| Against their noxious blast their sullen roar | O |
| In vain we pile the hearth in vain we close the door | O |
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| The universal lot ordains | F |
| We seek the black Cocytus' stream | P |
| That languid strays thro' dreary plains | F |
| Where cheerless fires perpetual gleam | P |
| Where the fell Brides their fruitless toil bemoan | Q |
| And Sisyphus uprolls the still returning stone | Q |
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| Thy tender wife thy large domain | R |
| Soon shalt thou quit at Fate's command | S |
| And of those various trees that gain | R |
| Their culture from thy fost'ring hand | S |
| The Cypress only shall await thy doom | T |
| Follow its short liv'd Lord and shade his lonely tomb | T |
Anna Seward
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