Ninth Ode Of The Third Book Of Horace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE F BFEF A DEEG F HADA A HDIF F EDD| Horace | A |
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| While I was your beloved one | B |
| And while no other youth threw his fond arms around | C |
| Your white neck so easily | D |
| Than the King of the world I was far happier | E |
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| Lydia | F |
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| While you loved not another one | B |
| While you did not prefer Chlo to Lydia | F |
| I then thought myself happier | E |
| Than the mother of Rome great Rhea Silvia | F |
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| Horace | A |
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| Thracian Chlo now governs me | D |
| She can merrily sing playing the cithara | E |
| I'd not scruple to die for her | E |
| If the Implacable spared Chlo the auburn haired | G |
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| Lydia | F |
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| I now love and am loved again | H |
| By my Cala s son of the old Ornytus | A |
| Twice I'd die for him willingly | D |
| If the terrible fates spared but my Cala s | A |
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| Horace | A |
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| What if love should return again | H |
| And unite us by ties more indissoluble | D |
| What if Chlo were cast away | I |
| And the long closed door open to Lydia | F |
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| Lydia | F |
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| My love's brighter than any star | E |
| You too lighter than cork tossed on the waves of the Hadriatic so terrible | D |
| Still I'd live but with thee and I could die with thee | D |
James Clerk Maxwell
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