Horace Ii, 3. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAB CCDCD EEFEF GGHGH CCICIBe tranquil Dellius I pray | A |
For though you pine your life away | A |
With dull complaining breath | B |
Or speed with song and wine each day | A |
Still still your doom is death | B |
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Where the white poplar and the pine | C |
In glorious arching shade combine | C |
And the brook singing goes | D |
Bid them bring store of nard and wine | C |
And garlands of the rose | D |
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Let's live while chance and youth obtain | E |
Soon shall you quit this fair domain | E |
Kissed by the Tiber's gold | F |
And all your earthly pride and gain | E |
Some heedless heir shall hold | F |
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One ghostly boat shall some time bear | G |
From scenes of mirthfulness or care | G |
Each fated human soul | H |
Shall waft and leave his burden where | G |
The waves of Lethe roll | H |
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So come I pri' thee Dellius mine | C |
Let's sing our songs and drink our wine | C |
In that sequestered nook | I |
Where the white poplar and the pine | C |
Stand listening to the brook | I |
Eugene Field
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