The Invocation Of Lucretius Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJFIKLMIIMIII NO IIFIIPQIE| BOOK I | A |
| - | |
| Mother of Rome delight of gods and men | B |
| Beloved Venus who under the fleeting stars | C |
| Fillest the freighted sea and earth's ripe fields | D |
| O since through thee alone all forms of life | E |
| Are born and climb into the sun's sweet light | F |
| Goddess before whose lovely advancing feet | G |
| The winds and towering clouds scatter and flee | H |
| And the labouring earth discloses odorous flowers | I |
| And the sea falls into a shining calm | J |
| And the assuaged heavens mellow with light | F |
| For when the spring like face of day awakes | I |
| And the West Wind unloosed flies procreant forth | K |
| Then first the coursing birds smitten at heart | L |
| Betray Lady thy entrance and thy power | M |
| And then the beasts caper in happy pastures | I |
| And swim swift floods so all created things | I |
| Captive to thee drawn by their own desire | M |
| Stray through the world where'er thy presence leads | I |
| Through all the seas and hills and swelling streams | I |
| Wing fluttering woods and green luxuriant plains | I |
| Thou harryest them with lust that none shall fail | N |
| To carry their eternal races on | O |
| - | |
| Since then thou art sole queen of all that Is | I |
| And without thee to help can nothing rise | I |
| To cross the glorious frontiers of the light | F |
| And nothing grow in gentleness or grace | I |
| Thee do I pray to aid my labouring verse | I |
| Now that of all that Is I strive to sing | P |
| Lady for my dear Memmian heir whom thou | Q |
| Hast blest with every constant excellence | I |
| For his sake chiefly fill my words with life | E |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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