Flavius-s Girl: To Flavius Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBDBEFGBHIBBJK| Flavius unless your delights | A |
| were tasteless and inelegant | B |
| you d want to tell and couldn t be silent | B |
| Surely you re in love with some feverish | C |
| little whore you re ashamed to confess it | B |
| Now pointlessly silent you don t seem to be | D |
| idle of nights it s proclaimed by your bed | B |
| garlanded fragrant with Syrian perfume | E |
| squashed cushions and pillows here and there | F |
| and the trembling frame shaken | G |
| quivering and wandering about | B |
| But being silent does nothing for you | H |
| Why Spread thighs blab it s not so | I |
| if not quite what foolishness you commit | B |
| How and whatever you ve got good or bad | B |
| tell us I want to name you and your loves | J |
| to the heavens in charming verse | K |
Gaius Valerius Catullus
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