Glycera Rediviva Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDD EEFF BBGG HHFFHorace Book I Ode | A |
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Mater s va Cupidinum | B |
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Venus the cruel mother of | C |
The Cupids symbolising Love | C |
Bids me to muse upon and sigh | D |
For things to which I've said Good bye | D |
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Believe me or believe me not | E |
I give this Glycera girl a lot | E |
Pure Parian marble are her arms | F |
And she has eighty other charms | F |
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Venus has left her Cyprus home | B |
And will not let me pull a pome | B |
About the Parthians fierce and rough | G |
The Scythian war and all that stuff | G |
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Set up O slaves a verdant shrine | H |
Uncork a quart of last year's wine | H |
Place incense here and here verbenas | F |
And watch me while I jolly Venus | F |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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