Odes From Horace. - To Pyrrha. Book The First, Ode The Fifth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFGG HIHIJJ CKCKLL| Where roses flaunt beneath some pleasant cave | A |
| Too charming Pyrrha what enamour'd Boy | B |
| Whose shining locks the breathing odors lave | A |
| Woos thee exulting in a transient joy | B |
| For whom the simple band dost thou prepare | C |
| That lightly fastens back thy golden hair | C |
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| Alas how soon shall this devoted Youth | D |
| Love's tyrant sway and thy chang'd eyes deplore | E |
| Indignant curse thy violated truth | D |
| And count each broken promise o'er and o'er | F |
| Who hopes to meet unconscious of thy wiles | G |
| Looks ever vacant ever facile smiles | G |
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| He inexperienc'd Mariner shall gaze | H |
| In wild amazement on the stormy deep | I |
| Recall the flattery of those sunny days | H |
| That lull'd each ruder wind to calmest sleep | I |
| 'T was then with jocund hope he spread the sail | J |
| In rash dependence on the faithless gale | J |
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| Ah Wretch to whom untried thou seemest fair | C |
| By me who late thy halcyon surface sung | K |
| The walls of Neptune's fane inscrib'd declare | C |
| That I have dank and dropping garments hung | K |
| Devoted to the GOD whose kind decree | L |
| Snatch'd me to shore from an o'erwhelming sea | L |
Anna Seward
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