To Quintus Hirpinus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA CDEED AAFFA BAGGA HBIIJ KLMML| To Scythian and Cantabrian plots | A |
| Pay them no heed O Quintius | A |
| So long as we | B |
| From care are free | B |
| Vexations cannot cinch us | A |
| - | |
| Unwrinkled youth and grace forsooth | C |
| Speed hand in hand together | D |
| The songs we sing | E |
| In time of spring | E |
| Are hushed in wintry weather | D |
| - | |
| Why even flow'rs change with the hours | A |
| And the moon has divers phases | A |
| And shall the mind | F |
| Be racked to find | F |
| A clew to Fortune's mazes | A |
| - | |
| Nay 'neath this tree let you and me | B |
| Woo Bacchus to caress us | A |
| We're old 't is true | G |
| But still we two | G |
| Are thoroughbreds God bless us | A |
| - | |
| While the wine gets cool in yonder pool | H |
| Let's spruce up nice and tidy | B |
| Who knows old boy | I |
| But we may decoy | I |
| The fair but furtive Lyde | J |
| - | |
| She can execute on her ivory lute | K |
| Sonatas full of passion | L |
| And she bangs her hair | M |
| Which is passing fair | M |
| In the good old Spartan fashion | L |
Eugene Field
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