Homage To Quintus Septimus Florentis Christianus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC ADDDEF ACGFFD HDIDDD FJFD FKDDD LFFFI | A |
Ex libris Graec | B |
Theodorus will be pleased at my death | C |
And someone else will be pleased at the death of Theodoras | D |
And yet everyone speaks evil of death | C |
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II | A |
This place is the Cyprian's for she has ever the fancy | D |
To be looking out across the bright sea | D |
Therefore the sailors are cheered and the waves | D |
Keep small with reverence beholding her image | E |
Anyte | F |
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III | A |
A sad and great evil is the expectation of death | C |
And there are also the inane expenses of the funeral | G |
Let us therefore cease from pitying the dead | F |
For after death there comes no other calamity | F |
Palladas | D |
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IV | - |
Troy | H |
Whithe r O city are your profits and your gilded shrines | D |
And your barbecues of great oxen | I |
And the tall women walking your streets in gilt clothes | D |
With their perfumes in little alabaster boxes | D |
Where is the work of your home born sculptors | D |
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Time's tooth is into the lot and war's and fate's too | F |
Envy has taken your all | J |
Save your douth and your story | F |
Agathas Scholasticus | D |
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V | F |
Woman Oh woman is a consummate rage | K |
but dead or asleep she pleases | D |
Take her She has two excellent seasons | D |
Palladas | D |
VI | - |
Nicharcus upon Phidon his doctor | L |
Phidon neither purged me nor touched me | F |
But I remembered the name of his fever medicine and | F |
died | F |
Ezra Pound
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