An Invitation To Mëcenas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDECEFF GEHEIEJEKK LMNMOPDPOO QRNSTEUEKK| Dear noble friend a virgin cask | A |
| Of wine solicits your attention | B |
| And roses fair to deck your hair | C |
| And things too numerous to mention | B |
| So tear yourself awhile away | D |
| From urban turmoil pride and splendor | E |
| And deign to share what humble fare | C |
| And sumptuous fellowship I tender | E |
| The sweet content retirement brings | F |
| Smoothes out the ruffled front of kings | F |
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| The evil planets have combined | G |
| To make the weather hot and hotter | E |
| By parboiled streams the shepherd dreams | H |
| Vainly of ice cream soda water | E |
| And meanwhile you defying heat | I |
| With patriotic ardor ponder | E |
| On what old Rome essays at home | J |
| And what her heathen do out yonder | E |
| M cenas no such vain alarm | K |
| Disturbs the quiet of this farm | K |
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| God in His providence obscures | L |
| The goal beyond this vale of sorrow | M |
| And smiles at men in pity when | N |
| They seek to penetrate the morrow | M |
| With faith that all is for the best | O |
| Let's bear what burdens are presented | P |
| That we shall say let come what may | D |
| We die as we have lived contented | P |
| Ours is to day God's is the rest | O |
| He doth ordain who knoweth best | O |
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| Dame Fortune plays me many a prank | Q |
| When she is kind oh how I go it | R |
| But if again she's harsh why then | N |
| I am a very proper poet | S |
| When favoring gales bring in my ships | T |
| I hie to Rome and live in clover | E |
| Elsewise I steer my skiff out here | U |
| And anchor till the storm blows over | E |
| Compulsory virtue is the charm | K |
| Of life upon the Sabine farm | K |
Eugene Field
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