From: Horace To: Phyllis Subject: Invitation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEE FFGG HHDD IIJJ KKLL MMJJ NNNN| Horace Book IV Ode | A |
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| Est mihi nonum superantis annum | B |
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| Phyllis I've a jar of wine | C |
| Alban B C | D |
| Parsley wreathes and for your tresses | E |
| Ivy that your beauty blesses | E |
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| Shines my house with silverware | F |
| Frondage decks the altar stair | F |
| Sacred vervain a device | G |
| For a lambkin's sacrifice | G |
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| Up and down the household stairs | H |
| What a festival prepares | H |
| Everybody's superintending | D |
| See the sooty smoke ascending | D |
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| What you ask me is the date | I |
| Of the day we celebrate | I |
| th April month of Venus | J |
| Birthday of my boss Myc nas | J |
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| Let me Phyllis say a word | K |
| Touching Telephus a bird | K |
| Ranking far too high above you | L |
| And the loafer doesn't love you | L |
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| Lessons Phyllie may be learned | M |
| From Pha ton how he was burned | M |
| And recall Bellerophon was | J |
| One equestrian who thrown was | J |
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| Phyllis of my loves the last | N |
| My philandering days are past | N |
| Sing you in your clear contralto | N |
| Songs I write for the rialto | N |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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