Pereunt Et Imputantur (after Martial) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGG HIHIJJ KLKLMM| Bernard if to you and me | A |
| Fortune all at once should give | B |
| Years to spend secure and free | A |
| With the choice of how to live | C |
| Tell me what should we proclaim | D |
| Life deserving of the name | D |
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| Winning some one else's case | E |
| Saving some one else's seat | F |
| Hearing with a solemn face | E |
| People of importance bleat | F |
| No I think we should not still | G |
| Waste our time at others' will | G |
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| Summer noons beneath the limes | H |
| Summer rides at evening cool | I |
| Winter's tales and home made rhymes | H |
| Figures on the frozen pool | I |
| These would we for labours take | J |
| And of these our business make | J |
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| Ah but neither you nor I | K |
| Dare in earnest venture so | L |
| Still we let the good days die | K |
| And to swell the reckoning go | L |
| What are those that know the way | M |
| Yet to walk therein delay | M |
Henry Newbolt
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