To Lyce. - Translations From Horace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HGHG FGFG IGIG JKJKOD iv | A |
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Lyce the gods have listened to my prayer | B |
The gods have listened Lyce Thou art grey | C |
And still would'st thou seem fair | B |
Still unshamed drink and play | C |
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And wine flushed woo slow answering Love with weak | D |
Shrill pipings With young Chia He doth dwell | E |
Queen of the harp her cheek | D |
Is his sweet citadel | E |
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He marked the withered oak and on he flew | F |
Intolerant shrank from Lyce grim and wrinkled | G |
Whose teeth are ghastly blue | F |
Whose temples snow besprinkled | G |
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Not purple not the brightest gem that glows | H |
Brings back to her the years which fleeting fast | G |
Time hath once shut in those | H |
Dark annals of the Past | G |
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Oh where is all thy loveliness soft hue | F |
And motions soft Oh what of Her doth rest | G |
Her who breathed love who drew | F |
My heart out of my breast | G |
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Fair and far famed and subtly sweet thy face | I |
Ranked next to Cinara's But to Cinara fate | G |
Gave but a few years' grace | I |
And lets live all too late | G |
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Lyce the rival of the beldam crow | J |
That fiery youth may see with scornful brow | K |
The torch that long ago | J |
Beamed bright a cinder now | K |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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