Home Truths For Varus-s Girl: To Varus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNGOPQRG LSTUVWXQYOYBZ| Varus drags me into his affairs | A |
| out of the Forum where I m seen idling | B |
| to a little whore I immediately saw | C |
| not very inelegant not unattractive | D |
| who when we came there met us | E |
| with varied chatter including how might | F |
| Bithynia stand now what s it like and where | G |
| might the benefit have been to me in cash | H |
| I told her what s true nothing at all | I |
| while neither the praetors nor their aides | J |
| return any the richer especially since | K |
| our Praetor Memmius the bugger | L |
| cared not a jot for his followers | M |
| But surely they said you could have bought | N |
| slaves they say are made for the litter there | G |
| I so the girl might take me to be wealthy | O |
| said no for me things weren t so bad | P |
| that coming across one bad province | Q |
| I couldn t buy eight good men | R |
| But I d no one neither here nor there | G |
| who might even raise to his shoulder | L |
| the shattered foot of an old couch | S |
| At this she like the shameless thing she was said | T |
| I beg you my dear Catullus for the loan of them | U |
| just for a while I d like to be carried | V |
| to Serap s temple Wait I said to the girl | W |
| what I just said was mine isn t actually in | X |
| my possession my friend Cinna that s Gaius | Q |
| purchased the thing for himself | Y |
| Whether they re his or mine what difference to me | O |
| I use them just as well as if I d bought them myself | Y |
| But you are quite tasteless and annoying | B |
| you with whom no inexactness is allowed | Z |
Gaius Valerius Catullus
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