Horace I, 4. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HGIG JKLK MMNM| 'Tis spring the boats bound to the sea | A |
| The breezes loitering kindly over | B |
| The fields again bring herds and men | C |
| The grateful cheer of honeyed clover | B |
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| Now Venus hither leads her train | D |
| The Nymphs and Graces join in orgies | E |
| The moon is bright and by her light | F |
| Old Vulcan kindles up his forges | G |
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| Bind myrtle now about your brow | H |
| And weave fair flowers in maiden tresses | G |
| Appease God Pan who kind to man | I |
| Our fleeting life with affluence blesses | G |
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| But let the changing seasons mind us | J |
| That Death's the certain doom of mortals | K |
| Grim Death who waits at humble gat | L |
| And likewise stalks through kingly portals | K |
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| Soon Sestius shall Plutonian shades | M |
| Enfold you with their hideous seemings | M |
| Then love and mirth and joys of earth | N |
| Shall fade away like fevered dreamings | M |
Eugene Field
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