The Reconciliation Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBB C DEDE A FGFG C FHFG A DIDI C JFJF| HORACE | A |
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| While favored by thy smiles no other youth in amorous teasing | B |
| Around thy snowy neck his folding arms was wont to fling | B |
| As long as I remained your love acceptable and pleasing | B |
| I lived a life of happiness beyond the Persian king | B |
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| LYDIA | C |
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| While Lydia ranked Chloe in your unreserved opinion | D |
| And for no other cherished thou a brighter livelier flame | E |
| I Lydia distinguished throughout the whole dominion | D |
| Surpassed the Roman Ilia in eminence of fame | E |
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| HORACE | A |
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| 'T is now the Thracian Chloe whose accomplishments inthrall me | F |
| So sweet in modulations such a mistress of the lyre | G |
| In truth the fates however terrible could not appall me | F |
| If they would spare her sweet my soul I gladly would expire | G |
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| LYDIA | C |
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| And now the son of Ornytus young Calais inflames me | F |
| With mutual restless passion and an all consuming fire | H |
| And if the fates however dread would spare the youth who claims me | F |
| Not only once would I face death but gladly twice expire | G |
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| HORACE | A |
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| What if our early love returns to prove we were mistaken | D |
| And bind with brazen yoke the twain to part ah nevermore | I |
| What if the charming Chloe of the golden locks be shaken | D |
| And slighted Lydia again glide through the open door | I |
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| LYDIA | C |
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| Though he is fairer than the star that shines so far above you | J |
| Thou lighter than a cork more stormy than the Adrian Sea | F |
| Still should I long to live with you to live for you and love you | J |
| And cheerfully see death's approach if thou wert near to me | F |
Eugene Field
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