Two Idylls From Bion The Smyrnean Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBB DEDEFF DGDGFF BHBHAA DBDBGG A IFIFJFJ JKJKBKB BLBLKLK IFIFKFK| I | A |
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| Once a fowler young and artless | B |
| To the quiet greenwood came | C |
| Full of skill was he and heartless | B |
| In pursuit of feathered game | C |
| And betimes he chanced to see | B |
| Eros perching in a tree | B |
| - | |
| What strange bird is that I wonder | D |
| Thought the youth and spread his snare | E |
| Eros chuckling at the blunder | D |
| Gayly scampered here and there | E |
| Do his best the simple clod | F |
| Could not snare the agile god | F |
| - | |
| Blubbering to his aged master | D |
| Went the fowler in dismay | G |
| And confided his disaster | D |
| With that curious bird that day | G |
| Master hast thou ever heard | F |
| Of so ill disposed a bird | F |
| - | |
| Heard of him Aha most truly | B |
| Quoth the master with a smile | H |
| And thou too shall know him duly | B |
| Thou art young but bide awhile | H |
| And old Eros will not fly | A |
| From thy presence by and by | A |
| - | |
| For when thou art somewhat older | D |
| That same Eros thou didst see | B |
| More familiar grown and bolder | D |
| Shall become acquaint with thee | B |
| And when Eros comes thy way | G |
| Mark my word he comes to stay | G |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Once came Venus to me bringing | I |
| Eros where my cattle fed | F |
| Teach this little boy your singing | I |
| Gentle herdsman Venus said | F |
| I was young I did not know | J |
| Whom it was that Venus led | F |
| That was many years ago | J |
| - | |
| In a lusty voice but mellow | J |
| Callow pedant I began | K |
| To instruct the little fellow | J |
| In the mysteries known to man | K |
| Sung the noble cithern's praise | B |
| And the flute of dear old Pan | K |
| And the lyre that Hermes plays | B |
| - | |
| But he paid no heed unto me | B |
| Nay that graceless little boy | L |
| Coolly plotted to undo me | B |
| With his songs of tender joy | L |
| And my pedantry o'erthrown | K |
| Eager was I to employ | L |
| His sweet ritual for mine own | K |
| - | |
| Ah these years of ours are fleeting | I |
| Yet I have not vainly wrought | F |
| Since to day I am repeating | I |
| What dear lessons Eros taught | F |
| Love and always love and then | K |
| Counting all things else for naught | F |
| Love and always love again | K |
Eugene Field
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