Certain Books Of Virgil's Aeneis: Book Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCBDEBFGGHGBIJGK LGMCNGGBOPG OBQRLOGSJBGBOBNGGTBB BTBUB VHGROGOBGOBM| BOOK II | A |
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| They whisted all with fixed face attent | B |
| When Prince AEneas from the royal seat | B |
| Thus gan to speak O Queen it is thy will | C |
| I should renew a woe cannot be told | B |
| How that the Greeks did spoil and overthrow | D |
| The Phrygian wealth and wailful realm of Troy | E |
| Those ruthful things that I myself beheld | B |
| And whereof no small part fell to my share | F |
| Which to express who could refrain from tears | G |
| What Myrmidon or yet what Dolopes | G |
| What stern Ulysses' waged soldier | H |
| And lo moist night now from the welkin falls | G |
| And stars declining counsel us to rest | B |
| But since so great is thy delight to hear | I |
| Of our mishaps and Troy last decay | J |
| Though to record the same my mind abhors | G |
| And plaint eschews yet thus will I begin | K |
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| The Greek chieftains all irk'd with the war | L |
| Wherein they wasted had so many years | G |
| And oft repuls'd by fatal destiny | M |
| A huge horse made high raised like a hill | C |
| By the divine science of Minerva | N |
| Of cloven fir compacted were his ribs | G |
| For their return a feigned sacrifice | G |
| The fame whereof so wander'd it at point | B |
| In the dark bulk they clos'd bodies of men | O |
| Chosen by lot and did enstuff by stealth | P |
| The hollow womb with armed soldiers | G |
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| There stands in sight an isle hight Tenedon | O |
| Rich and of fame while Priam's kingdom stood | B |
| Now but a bay and road unsure for ship | Q |
| Hither them secretly the Greeks withdrew | R |
| Shrouding themselves under the desert shore | L |
| And weening we they had been fled and gone | O |
| And with that wind had fet the land of Greece | G |
| Troy e discharg'd her long continued dole | S |
| The gates cast up we issued out to play | J |
| The Greekish camp desirous to behold | B |
| The places void and the forsaken coasts | G |
| Here Pyrrhus' band there fierce Achilles' pight | B |
| Here rode their ships there did their battles join | O |
| Astonied some the scathful gift beheld | B |
| Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve | N |
| All wond'ring at the hugeness of the horse | G |
| And first of all Tim tes gan advise | G |
| Within the walls to lead and draw the same | T |
| And place it eke amid the palace court | B |
| Whether of guile or Troyes fate it would | B |
| Capys with some of judgment more discreet | B |
| Will'd it to drown or underset with flame | T |
| The suspect present of the Greek's deceit | B |
| Or bore and gauge the hollow caves uncouth | U |
| So diverse ran the giddy people's mind | B |
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| Lo foremost of a rout that follow'd him | V |
| Kindled La n hasted from the tower | H |
| Crying far off 'O wretched citizens | G |
| What so great kind of frenzy fretteth you | R |
| Deem ye the Greeks our enemies to be gone | O |
| Or any Greekish gifts can you suppose | G |
| Devoid of guile Is so Ulysses known | O |
| Either the Greeks are in this timber hid | B |
| Or this an engine is to annoy our walls | G |
| To view our towers and overwhelm our town | O |
| Here lurks some craft Good Troyans give no trust | B |
| Unto this horse for whatsoever it be | M |
| I dread the Greeks yea when they offer gifts ' | - |
Henry Howard
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