Translation From Catullus. Lugete Veneres Cupidinesque (carm. Iii.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCD EEEFGHGF IIIJCCCJ| Ye Cupids droop each little head | A |
| Nor let your wings with joy be spread | A |
| My Lesbia's favourite bird is dead | A |
| Whom dearer than her eyes she lov'd | B |
| For he was gentle and so true | C |
| Obedient to her call he flew | C |
| No fear no wild alarm he knew | C |
| But lightly o'er her bosom mov'd | D |
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| And softly fluttering here and there | E |
| He never sought to cleave the air | E |
| He chirrup'd oft and free from care | E |
| Tun'd to her ear his grateful strain | F |
| Now having pass'd the gloomy bourn | G |
| From whence he never can return | H |
| His death and Lesbia's grief I mourn | G |
| Who sighs alas but sighs in vain | F |
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| Oh curst be thou devouring grave | I |
| Whose jaws eternal victims crave | I |
| From whom no earthly power can save | I |
| For thou hast ta'en the bird away | J |
| From thee my Lesbia's eyes o'erflow | C |
| Her swollen cheeks with weeping glow | C |
| Thou art the cause of all her woe | C |
| Receptacle of life's decay | J |
George Gordon Byron
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