His Boat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGGGGGAGHGIGJG DJGKLAG| This boat you see friends will tell you | A |
| that she was the fastest of craft | B |
| not to be challenged for speed | C |
| by any vessel afloat whether | D |
| driven by sail or the labour of oars | E |
| The threatening Adriatic coast won t deny it | F |
| nor the isles of the Cyclades | G |
| nor noble Rhodes nor fearful Bosphorus | G |
| nor the grim bay of the Black Sea | G |
| where before becoming a boat she was | G |
| leafy wood for on the heights of Cytorus | G |
| she often hissed to the whispering leaves | G |
| The boat says these things were well known to you | A |
| and are Amastris and box wood clad Cytorus | G |
| she says from the very beginning she stood | H |
| on your slope that she dipped her oars | G |
| in your water and carried her owner from there | I |
| over so many headstrong breakers | G |
| whether the wind cried from starboard | J |
| or larboard or whether Jupiter struck at the sheets | G |
| on one side and the other together | D |
| and no prayers to the gods of the shore were offered | J |
| for her when she came from a foreign sea | G |
| here as far as this limpid lake | K |
| But that s past now hidden away here | L |
| she ages quietly and offers herself to you | A |
| Castor and his brother heavenly Twins | G |
Gaius Valerius Catullus
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