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| A | |
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| Horace Book III Ode | B |
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| Carminis interea nostri red mus in orbem | C |
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| Let us return then for a time | C |
| To our accustomed round of rhyme | C |
| And let my songs' familiar art | D |
| Not fail to move my lady's heart | D |
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| They say that Orpheus with his lute | E |
| Had power to tame the wildest brute | E |
| That Vatiations on a Theme | C |
| Of his would stay the swiftest stream | C |
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| They say that by the minstrel's song | F |
| Cith ron's rocks were moved along | F |
| To Thebes where as you may recall | G |
| They formed themselves to frame a wall | G |
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| And Galatea lovely maid | H |
| Beneath wild Etna's fastness stayed | H |
| Her horses dripping with the mere | I |
| Those Polypheman songs to hear | J |
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| What marvel then since Bacchus and | K |
| Apollo grasp me by the hand | L |
| That all the maidens you have heard | M |
| Should hang upon my slightest word | M |
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| T nerian columns in my home | C |
| Are not nor any golden dome | C |
| No parks have I nor Marcian spring | N |
| Nor orchards nay nor anything | N |
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| The Muses though are friends of mine | O |
| Some readers love my lyric line | O |
| And never is Callipoe | P |
| Awearied by my poetry | Q |
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| O happy she whose meed of praise | R |
| Hath fallen upon my sheaf of lays | R |
| And every song of mine is sent | S |
| To be thy beauty's monument | T |
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| The Pyramids that point the sky | U |
| The House of Jove that soars so high | U |
| Mausolus' tomb they are not free | Q |
| From Death his final penalty | Q |
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| For fire or rain shall steal away | V |
| The crumbling glory of their day | V |
| But fame for wit can never die | U |
| And gosh I was a gay old guy | U |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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