Propertius's Bid For Immortality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AA B C CCDD EECC FFGG HHIJ KLMM CCNN OOPQ RRST UUQQ VVUU

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Horace Book III OdeB
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Carminis interea nostri red mus in orbemC
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Let us return then for a timeC
To our accustomed round of rhymeC
And let my songs' familiar artD
Not fail to move my lady's heartD
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They say that Orpheus with his luteE
Had power to tame the wildest bruteE
That Vatiations on a ThemeC
Of his would stay the swiftest streamC
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They say that by the minstrel's songF
Cith ron's rocks were moved alongF
To Thebes where as you may recallG
They formed themselves to frame a wallG
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And Galatea lovely maidH
Beneath wild Etna's fastness stayedH
Her horses dripping with the mereI
Those Polypheman songs to hearJ
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What marvel then since Bacchus andK
Apollo grasp me by the handL
That all the maidens you have heardM
Should hang upon my slightest wordM
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T nerian columns in my homeC
Are not nor any golden domeC
No parks have I nor Marcian springN
Nor orchards nay nor anythingN
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The Muses though are friends of mineO
Some readers love my lyric lineO
And never is CallipoeP
Awearied by my poetryQ
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O happy she whose meed of praiseR
Hath fallen upon my sheaf of laysR
And every song of mine is sentS
To be thy beauty's monumentT
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The Pyramids that point the skyU
The House of Jove that soars so highU
Mausolus' tomb they are not freeQ
From Death his final penaltyQ
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For fire or rain shall steal awayV
The crumbling glory of their dayV
But fame for wit can never dieU
And gosh I was a gay old guyU

Franklin Pierce Adams



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