The Truth About Horace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCDB EFEGAAAG HHHIJJKF LLLMHHHM| It is very aggravating | A |
| To hear the solemn prating | A |
| Of the fossils who are stating | A |
| That old Horace was a prude | B |
| When we know that with the ladies | C |
| He was always raising Hades | C |
| And with many an escapade his | D |
| Best productions are imbued | B |
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| There's really not much harm in a | E |
| Large number of his carmina | F |
| But these people find alarm in a | E |
| Few records of his acts | G |
| So they'd squelch the muse caloric | A |
| And to students sophomoric | A |
| They d present as metaphoric | A |
| What old Horace meant for facts | G |
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| We have always thought 'em lazy | H |
| Now we adjudge 'em crazy | H |
| Why Horace was a daisy | H |
| That was very much alive | I |
| And the wisest of us know him | J |
| As his Lydia verses show him | J |
| Go read that virile poem | K |
| It is No | F |
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| He was a very owl sir | L |
| And starting out to prowl sir | L |
| You bet he made Rome howl sir | L |
| Until he filled his date | M |
| With a massic laden ditty | H |
| And a classic maiden pretty | H |
| He painted up the city | H |
| And Maecenas paid the freight | M |
Eugene Field
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