To A Ship. - Translations From Horace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FEFE GHGH GIGI| OD i | A |
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| Yet on fresh billows seaward wilt thou ride | B |
| O ship What dost thou Seek a hav'n and there | C |
| Rest thee for lo thy side | B |
| Is oarless all and bare | C |
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| And the swift south west wind hath maimed thy mast | D |
| And thy yards creak and every cable lost | E |
| Yield must thy keel at last | D |
| On pitiless sea waves tossed | E |
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| Too rudely Goodly canvas is not thine | F |
| Nor gods to hear thee now when need is sorest | E |
| Though thou a Pontic pine | F |
| Child of a stately forest | E |
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| Boastest high name and empty pedigree | G |
| Pale seamen little trust the gaudy sail | H |
| Stay unless doomed to be | G |
| The plaything of the gale | H |
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| Flee what of late sore burden was to me | G |
| Now a sad memory and a bitter pain | I |
| Those shining Cyclads flee | G |
| That stud the far off main | I |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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