Sic Transit Gloria Mundi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCB CDBB BEFE GCHC IBJB CKLM KNCN FBHB COPF CQCQ RGPS BTHT UCVC KFNF HBHB WFXF CBNB| A | |
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| Sic transit gloria mundi | B |
| How doth the busy bee | B |
| Dum vivimus vivamus | C |
| I stay mine enemy | B |
| - | |
| Oh veni vidi vici | C |
| Oh caput cap a pie | D |
| And oh memento mori | B |
| When I am far from thee | B |
| - | |
| Hurrah for Peter Parley | B |
| Hurrah for Daniel Boone | E |
| Three cheers sir for the gentleman | F |
| Who first observed the moon | E |
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| Peter put up the sunshine | G |
| Patti arrange the stars | C |
| Tell Luna tea is waiting | H |
| And call your brother Mars | C |
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| Put down the apple Adam | I |
| And come away with me | B |
| So shalt thou have a pippin | J |
| From off my father's tree | B |
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| I climb the Hill of Science | C |
| I view the landscape o'er | K |
| Such transcendental prospect | L |
| I ne'er beheld before | M |
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| Unto the Legislature | K |
| My country bids me go | N |
| I'll take my india rubbers | C |
| In case the wind should blow | N |
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| During my education | F |
| It was announced to me | B |
| That gravitation stumbling | H |
| Fell from an apple tree | B |
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| The earth upon an axis | C |
| Was once supposed to turn | O |
| By way of a gymnastic | P |
| In honor of the sun | F |
| - | |
| It was the brave Columbus | C |
| A sailing o'er the tide | Q |
| Who notified the nations | C |
| Of where I would reside | Q |
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| Mortality is fatal | R |
| Gentility is fine | G |
| Rascality heroic | P |
| Insolvency sublime | S |
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| Our Fathers being weary | B |
| Laid down on Bunker Hill | T |
| And tho' full many a morning | H |
| Yet they are sleeping still | T |
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| The trumpet sir shall wake them | U |
| In dreams I see them rise | C |
| Each with a solemn musket | V |
| A marching to the skies | C |
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| A coward will remain Sir | K |
| Until the fight is done | F |
| But an immortal hero | N |
| Will take his hat and run | F |
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| Good bye Sir I am going | H |
| My country calleth me | B |
| Allow me Sir at parting | H |
| To wipe my weeping e'e | B |
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| In token of our friendship | W |
| Accept this Bonnie Doon | F |
| And when the hand that plucked it | X |
| Hath passed beyond the moon | F |
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| The memory of my ashes | C |
| Will consolation be | B |
| Then farewell Tuscarora | N |
| And farewell Sir to thee | B |
Emily Dickinson
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