To Albius Tibullus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE FGHG IJKJ LMMMNot to lament that rival flame | A |
Wherewith the heartless Glycera scorns you | B |
Nor waste your time in maudlin rhyme | C |
How many a modern instance warns you | B |
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Fair browed Lycoris pines away | D |
Because her Cyrus loves another | E |
The ruthless churl informs the girl | F |
He loves her only as a brother | E |
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For he in turn courts Pholoe | F |
A maid unscotched of love's fierce virus | G |
Why goats will mate with wolves they hate | H |
Ere Pholoe will mate with Cyrus | G |
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Ah weak and hapless human hearts | I |
By cruel Mother Venus fated | J |
To spend this life in hopeless strife | K |
Because incongruously mated | J |
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Such torture Albius is my lot | L |
For though a better mistress wooed me | M |
My Myrtale has captured me | M |
And with her cruelties subdued me | M |
Eugene Field
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