What Flavour? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCD CECE CDCD FGFG| Horace Book III Ode | A |
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| O fons Bandisi splendidior vitro | B |
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| Worthy of flowers and syrups sweet | C |
| O fountain of Bandusian onyx | D |
| To morrow shall a goatling's bleat | C |
| Mix with the sizz of thy carbonics | D |
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| A kid whose budding horns portend | C |
| A life of love and war but vainly | E |
| For thee his sanguine life shall end | C |
| He'll spill his blood to put it plainly | E |
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| And never shalt thou feel the heat | C |
| That blazes in the days of sirius | D |
| But men shall quaff thy soda sweet | C |
| And girls imbibe thy drinks delirious | D |
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| Fountain whose dulcet cool I sing | F |
| Be thou immortal by this Ode a | G |
| Not wholly metricious thing | F |
| Bandusian fount of ice cream soda | G |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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