Distichs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC A DE A FG H ID H JK H LH H BM H NO G GG G BG B PG G LQ G GH H RS H LT H GU H GH H DH| I | A |
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| Wisely a woman prefers to a lover a man who neglects her | B |
| This one may love her some day some day the lover will not | C |
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| II | A |
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| There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going | D |
| When they seem going they come Diplomates women and crabs | E |
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| III | A |
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| Pleasures too hastily tasted grow sweeter in fond recollection | F |
| As the pomegranate plucked green ripens far over the sea | G |
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| IV | H |
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| As the meek beasts in the Garden came flocking for Adam to name them | I |
| Men for a title to day crawl to the feet of a king | D |
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| V | H |
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| What is a first love worth except to prepare for a second | J |
| What does the second love bring Only regret for the first | K |
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| VI | H |
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| Health was wooed by the Romans in groves of the laurel and myrtle | L |
| Happy and long are the lives brightened by glory and love | H |
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| VII | H |
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| Wine is like rain when it falls on the mire it but makes it the fouler | B |
| But when it strikes the good soil wakes it to beauty and bloom | M |
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| VIII | H |
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| Break not the rose its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient | N |
| Resting contented with these never a thorn shall you feel | O |
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| IX | G |
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| When you break up housekeeping you learn the extent of your treasures | G |
| Till he begins to reform no one can number his sins | G |
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| X | G |
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| Maidens why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry | B |
| Choose whom you may you will find you have got somebody else | G |
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| XI | B |
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| Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him | P |
| And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins | G |
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| XII | G |
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| Be not too anxious to gain your next door neighbor's approval | L |
| Live your own life and let him strive your approval to gain | Q |
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| XIII | G |
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| Who would succeed in the world should be wise in the use of his pronouns | G |
| Utter the You twenty times where you once utter the I | H |
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| XIV | H |
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| The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish | R |
| Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day | S |
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| XV | H |
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| True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table | L |
| Luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home | T |
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| XVI | H |
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| Pleasant enough it is to hear the world speak of your virtues | G |
| But in your secret heart 't is of your faults you are proud | U |
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| XVII | H |
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| Try not to beat back the current yet be not drowned in its waters | G |
| Speak with the speech of the world think with the thoughts of the few | H |
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| XVIII | H |
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| Make all good men your well wishers and then in the years' steady sifting | D |
| Some of them turn into friends Friends are the sunshine of life | H |
John Hay
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