A Tardy Apology - Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFG HHIBBI BBBJJB BBKIIK| You ask me friend | A |
| Why I don't send | A |
| The long since due and paid for numbers | B |
| Why songless I | C |
| As drunken lie | C |
| Abandoned to Lethean slumbers | B |
| - | |
| Long time ago | D |
| As well you know | D |
| I started in upon that carmen | E |
| My work was vain | F |
| But why complain | F |
| When gods forbid how helpless are men | G |
| - | |
| Some ages back | H |
| The sage Anack | H |
| Courted a frisky Samian body | I |
| Singing her praise | B |
| In metered phrase | B |
| As flowing as his bowls of toddy | I |
| - | |
| Till I was hoarse | B |
| Might I discourse | B |
| Upon the cruelties of Venus | B |
| 'T were waste of time | J |
| As well of rhyme | J |
| For you've been there yourself M cenas | B |
| - | |
| Perfect your bliss | B |
| If some fair miss | B |
| Love you yourself and not your min | K |
| I fortune's sport | I |
| All vainly court | I |
| The beauteous polyandrous Phryne | K |
Eugene Field
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