Horace And Lydia Reconciled Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBC D EFGGC A HFBBF D ICJJC A CFBBF D KALLA| HORACE | A |
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| When you were mine in auld lang syne | B |
| And when none else your charms might ogle | C |
| I'll not deny | B |
| Fair nymph that I | B |
| Was happier than a Persian mogul | C |
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| LYDIA | D |
| - | |
| Before she came that rival flame | E |
| Was ever female creature sillier | F |
| In those good times | G |
| Bepraised in rhymes | G |
| I was more famed than Mother Ilia | C |
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| HORACE | A |
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| Chloe of Thrace With what a grace | H |
| Does she at song or harp employ her | F |
| I'd gladly die | B |
| If only I | B |
| Might live forever to enjoy her | F |
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| LYDIA | D |
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| My Sybaris so noble is | I |
| That by the gods I love him madly | C |
| That I might save | J |
| Him from the grave | J |
| I'd give my life and give it gladly | C |
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| HORACE | A |
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| What if ma belle from favor fell | C |
| And I made up my mind to shake her | F |
| Would Lydia then | B |
| Come back again | B |
| And to her quondam flame betake her | F |
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| LYDIA | D |
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| My other beau should surely go | K |
| And you alone should find me gracious | A |
| For no one slings | L |
| Such odes and things | L |
| As does the lauriger Horatius | A |
Eugene Field
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