To Fuscus. I-22 (from The Odes Of Horace) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAFAGHIEJKLKCMNM IOIO| Oh Fuscus he whose life is pure and upright | A |
| Wants not the Moorish javelin nor the bow | B |
| Nor may he need the quiver heavy laden | C |
| With arrows poisoned for the lurking foe | D |
| Whether he is about to make a journey | E |
| To sultry Libya or the unfriendly height | A |
| Of Caucasus or to the distant places | F |
| That famed Hydaspes washes in his flight | A |
| For lately me a wolf fled in the forest | G |
| The Sabine forest as my Lalage | H |
| I sang about beyond my boundaries wandering | I |
| Care free unarmed the creature fled from me | E |
| Apulia land of soldiers never nourished | J |
| In her broad woods a monster of such girth | K |
| Nor Mauritania arid nurse of lions | L |
| To such a one has ever given birth | K |
| Ah put me on those plains remote and barren | C |
| Where not a tree can feel the summer wind | M |
| And grow again a land of mist eternal | N |
| Whereover Jupiter still broods unkind | M |
| Or place me in that land denied man's dwelling | I |
| Too near the chariot of the sun above | O |
| Still my own Lalage so sweetly smiling | I |
| My sweetly speaking Lalage I'll love | O |
Helen Leah Reed
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