Epigram Against Carthy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC D E FF D GH I JKHH D DLDD H DDLL I LDDL L MMLL I NONOLPLQ| BY SWIFT AND OTHERS | A |
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| CHARLES CARTHY a schoolmaster in the city of Dublin was publisher of a translation of Horace in which the Latin was printed on the one side and the English on the other whence he acquired the name of Mezentius alluding to the practice of that tyrant who chained the dead to the living | B |
| Carthy was almost continually involved in satirical skirmishes with Dunkin for whom Swift had a particular friendship and there is no doubt that the Dean himself engaged in the warfare Scott | C |
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| ON CARTHY'S TRANSLATION OF HORACE | D |
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| Containing on one side the original Latin on the other his own version | E |
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| This I may boast which few e'er could | F |
| Half of my book at least is good | F |
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| ON CARTHY MINOTAURUS | D |
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| How monstrous Carthy looks with Flaccus braced | G |
| For here we see the man and there the beast | H |
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| ON THE SAME | I |
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| Once Horace fancied from a man | J |
| He was transformed to a swan | K |
| But Carthy as from him thou learnest | H |
| Has made the man a goose in earnest | H |
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| On The Same On Carthy Minotaurus | D |
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| Talis erat quondam Tithoni splendida conjux | D |
| Effulsit misero sic Dea juncta viro | L |
| Hunc tandem imminuit sensim longaeva senectus | D |
| Te vero extinxit Carole prima dies | D |
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| IMITATED | H |
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| So blush'd Aurora with celestial charms | D |
| So bloom'd the goddess in a mortal's arms | D |
| He sunk at length to wasting age a prey | L |
| But thy book perish'd on its natal day | L |
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| AD HORATIUM CUM CARTHIO CONSTRICTUM | I |
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| Lectores ridere jubes dum Carthius astat | L |
| Iste procul depellit olens tibi Maevius omnes | D |
| Sic triviis veneranda diu Jovis inclyta proles | D |
| Terruit assumpto mortales Gorgonis ore | L |
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| IMITATED | L |
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| Could Horace give so sad a monster birth | M |
| Why then in vain he would excite our mirth | M |
| His humour well our laughter might command | L |
| But who can bear the death's head in his hand | L |
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| AN IRISH EPIGRAM ON THE SAME | I |
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| While with the fustian of thy book | N |
| The witty ancient you enrobe | O |
| You make the graceful Horace look | N |
| As pitiful as Tom M'Lobe | O |
| Ye Muses guard your sacred mount | L |
| And Helicon for if this log | P |
| Should stumble once into the fount | L |
| He'll make it muddy as a bog | Q |
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