How Many Kisses: To Lesbia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHHH| Lesbia you ask how many kisses of yours | A |
| would be enough and more to satisfy me | B |
| As many as the grains of Libyan sand | C |
| that lie between hot Jupiter s oracle | D |
| at Ammon in resin producing Cyrene | E |
| and old Battiades sacred tomb | F |
| or as many as the stars when night is still | G |
| gazing down on secret human desires | H |
| as many of your kisses kissed | I |
| are enough and more for mad Catullus | H |
| as can t be counted by spies | H |
| nor an evil tongue bewitch us | H |
Gaius Valerius Catullus
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