Horace To Maecenas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDAEEA FGHHGIBCCB FDDDDJKCCK LBMMBAKNNK| How breaks my heart to hear you say | A |
| You feel the shadows fall about you | B |
| The gods forefend | C |
| That fate O friend | C |
| I would not I could not live without you | B |
| You gone what would become of me | D |
| Your shadow O beloved Maecenas | A |
| We've shared the mirth | E |
| And sweets of earth | E |
| Let's share the pangs of death between us | A |
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| I should not dread Chinaera's breath | F |
| Nor any threat of ghost infernal | G |
| Nor fear nor pain | H |
| Should part us twain | H |
| For so have willed the powers eternal | G |
| No false allegiance have I sworn | I |
| And whatsoever fate betide you | B |
| Mine be the part | C |
| To cheer your heart | C |
| With loving song to fare beside you | B |
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| Love snatched you from the claws of death | F |
| And gave you to the grateful city | D |
| The falling tree | D |
| That threatened me | D |
| Did Fannus turn aside in pity | D |
| With horoscopes so wondrous like | J |
| Why question that we twain shall wander | K |
| As in this land | C |
| So hand in hand | C |
| Into the life that waiteth yonder | K |
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| So to your shrine O patron mine | L |
| With precious wine and victims fare you | B |
| Poor as I am | M |
| A humble lamb | M |
| Must testify what love I bear you | B |
| But to the skies shall sweetly rise | A |
| The sacrifice from shrine and heather | K |
| And thither bear | N |
| The solemn prayer | N |
| That when we go we go together | K |
Eugene Field
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