Horatian Ode On The Tercentenary Of "don Quixote" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEC FGGF HIIH JKKJ LMML NCCNPublished at Madrid by Francisco de Robles January | A |
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Para mi sola nacio don Quixote y yo para el CERVANTES | B |
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Advents we greet of great and small | C |
Much we extol that may not live | D |
Yet to the new born Type we give | E |
No care at all | C |
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This year three centuries past by age | F |
More maimed than by LEPANTO'S fight | G |
This year CERVANTES gave to light | G |
His matchless page | F |
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Whence first outrode th' immortal Pair | H |
The half crazed Hero and his hind | I |
To make sad laughter for mankind | I |
And whence they fare | H |
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Throughout all Fiction still where chance | J |
Allies Life's dulness with its dreams | K |
Allies what is with what but seems | K |
Fact and Romance | J |
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O Knight of fire and Squire of earth | L |
O changing give and take between | M |
The aim too high the aim too mean | M |
I hail your birth | L |
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Three centuries past in sunburned SPAIN | N |
And hang on Time's PANTHEON wall | C |
My votive tablet to recall | C |
That lasting gain | N |
Henry Austin Dobson
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