A Palinode. I-16 (from The Odes Of Horace) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCDDEFGGHHIIJHKKL AMMHNOOA| Oh daughter lovelier than your lovely mother | A |
| Whatever punishment you may desire | A |
| Give my offending verses in the fire | A |
| Throw them please you or in the Adriatic | B |
| Not Dindymene no nor even Apollo | C |
| So shakes the minds of priests within the shrine | D |
| Nor so disturbing is the God of wine | D |
| Nor Corybantes doubling their shrill cymbals | E |
| As direful fits of anger that are frightened | F |
| Neither by Noric sword nor savage flame | G |
| Nor by ship wrecking seas nor them can tame | G |
| Great Jupiter himself with all his thunders | H |
| To our original clay they say Prometheus | H |
| Was forced to add a portion he had made | I |
| Of bits from every creature and he laid | I |
| In human hearts rage from the furious lion | J |
| With crushing ruin rage destroyed Thyestes | H |
| And as a final cause rage may be known | K |
| Why mighty cities fell quite overthrown | K |
| And why upon their walls a sneering army | L |
| Its plowshare drags along But keep your temper | A |
| Me too in my sweet youth a frenzied heart | M |
| Has tempted sorely and its maddening dart | M |
| Has driven me to write impetuous verses | H |
| To change sad things for brighter I am seeking | N |
| And since my offending verses I retract | O |
| I beg of you in turn a friendly act | O |
| That you again to me your heart give over | A |
Helen Leah Reed
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