Aurelius & Furius, True Comrades Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD BEFE GDCH IFDJ BDBK LDME| Aurelius Furius true comrades | A |
| whether Catullus penetrates to where in | B |
| outermost India booms the eastern ocean's | C |
| wonderful thunder | D |
| - | |
| whether he stops with Arabs or Hyrcani | B |
| Parthian bowmen or nomadic Sagae | E |
| or goes to Egypt which the Nile so richly | F |
| dyes overflowing | E |
| - | |
| even if he should scale the lofty Alps or | G |
| summon to mind the mightiness of Caesar | D |
| viewing the Gallic Rhine the dreadful Britons | C |
| at the world's far end | H |
| - | |
| you're both prepared to share in my adventures | I |
| and any others which the gods may send me | F |
| Back to my girl then carry her this bitter | D |
| message these spare words | J |
| - | |
| May she have joy profit from her cocksmen | B |
| go down embracing hundreds all together | D |
| never with love but without interruption | B |
| wringing their balls dry | K |
| - | |
| nor look to my affection as she used to | L |
| for she has left it broken like a flower | D |
| at the edge of a field after the plowshare | M |
| brushes it passing | E |
Gaius Valerius Catullus
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