A Tardy Apology - I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCCC DDBB| M cenas you will be my death though friendly you profess yourself | A |
| If to me in a strain like this so often you address yourself | A |
| Come Holly why this laziness Why indolently shock you us | B |
| Why with Lethean cups fall into desuetude innocuous | B |
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| A god M cenas yea a god hath proved the very curse of me | C |
| If my iambics are not done pray do not think the worse of me | C |
| Anacreon for young Bathyllus burned without apology | C |
| And wept his simple measures on a sample of conchology | C |
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| Now you yourself M cenas are enjoying this beatitude | D |
| If by no brighter beauty Ilium fell you've cause for gratitude | D |
| A certain Phryne keeps me on the rack with lovers numerous | B |
| This is the artful hussy's neat conception of the humorous | B |
Eugene Field
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