What A Book! : To Calvus The Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEGHGIJEKLMGNEE OPBE| If I didn t love you more than my eyes | A |
| most delightful Calvus I d dislike you | B |
| for this gift with a true Vatinian dislike | C |
| Now what did I do and what did I say | D |
| to be so badly cursed with poets | E |
| Let the gods send ill luck to that client | F |
| who sent you so many wretches | E |
| But if as I guess Sulla the grammarian | G |
| gave you this new and inventive gift | H |
| that s no harm to me it s good and fine | G |
| that your efforts aren t all wasted | I |
| Great gods an amazing immortal book | J |
| That you sent of course to your Catullus | E |
| so he might immediately die | K |
| on the optimum day in the Saturnalia | L |
| No you won t get away with this crime | M |
| Now when it s light enough I ll run | G |
| to the copyists bookstalls I ll acquire | N |
| Caesius Aquinus Suffenus | E |
| all of the poisonous ones | E |
| And I ll repay you for this suffering | O |
| Meanwhile farewell take yourself off there | P |
| whence your unlucky feet brought you | B |
| cursed ones of the age worst of poets | E |
Gaius Valerius Catullus
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