A Roman "round-robin." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B AAAA CDCD ABAB AEAE FAFA AGAG HBHB BIBE AJAJ| His Friends To Quintus Horatius Flaccus | A |
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| H c decies repetita non placebit Ars Poetica | B |
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| Flaccus you write us charming songs | A |
| No bard we know possesses | A |
| In such perfection what belongs | A |
| To brief and bright addresses | A |
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| No man can say that Life is short | C |
| With mien so little fretful | D |
| No man to Virtue's paths exhort | C |
| In phrases less regretful | D |
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| Or touch with more serene distress | A |
| On Fortune's ways erratic | B |
| And then delightfully digress | A |
| From Alp to Adriatic | B |
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| All this is well no doubt and tends | A |
| Barbarian minds to soften | E |
| But HORACE we we are your friends | A |
| Why tell us this so often | E |
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| Why feign to spread a cheerful feast | F |
| And then thrust in our faces | A |
| These barren scraps to say the least | F |
| Of Stoic common places | A |
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| Recount and welcome your pursuits | A |
| Sing Lyd 's lyre and hair | G |
| Sing drums and Berecynthian flutes | A |
| Sing parsley wreaths but spare | G |
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| O spare to sing what none deny | H |
| That things we love decay | B |
| That Time and Gold have wings to fly | H |
| That all must Fate obey | B |
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| Or bid us dine on this day week | B |
| And pour us if you can | I |
| As soft and sleek as girlish cheek | B |
| Your inmost C cuban | E |
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| Of that we fear not overplus | A |
| But your didactic 'tap' | J |
| Forgive us grows monotonous | A |
| Nunc vale Verbum sap | J |
Henry Austin Dobson
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