Horace, Book Iv, Ode Ix; Addressed To Humphry French, Esq.[1] Late Lord Mayor Of Dublin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDFGHIHAJKJLMLN OEOEPQPQRSTUVWVWVXVY ZA2ZA2ZVZVVYVQB2VC2V ZQZQVVVVVD2VE2ZC2ZC2 F2ZF2ZVZVZ| Patron of the tuneful throng | A |
| O too nice and too severe | B |
| Think not that my country song | A |
| Shall displease thy honest ear | C |
| Chosen strains I proudly bring | D |
| Which the Muses' sacred choir | E |
| When they gods and heroes sing | D |
| Dictate to th' harmonious lyre | F |
| Ancient Homer princely bard | G |
| Just precedence still maintains | H |
| With sacred rapture still are heard | I |
| Theban Pindar's lofty strains | H |
| Still the old triumphant song | A |
| Which when hated tyrants fell | J |
| Great Alc us boldly sung | K |
| Warns instructs and pleases well | J |
| Nor has Time's all darkening shade | L |
| In obscure oblivion press'd | M |
| What Anacreon laugh'd and play'd | L |
| Gay Anacreon drunken priest | N |
| Gentle Sappho love sick muse | O |
| Warms the heart with amorous fire | E |
| Still her tenderest notes infuse | O |
| Melting rapture soft desire | E |
| Beauteous Helen young and gay | P |
| By a painted fopling won | Q |
| Went not first fair nymph astray | P |
| Fondly pleased to be undone | Q |
| Nor young Teucer's slaughtering bow | R |
| Nor bold Hector's dreadful sword | S |
| Alone the terrors of the foe | T |
| Sow'd the field with hostile blood | U |
| Many valiant chiefs of old | V |
| Greatly lived and died before | W |
| Agamemnon Grecian bold | V |
| Waged the ten years' famous war | W |
| But their names unsung unwept | V |
| Unrecorded lost and gone | X |
| Long in endless night have slept | V |
| And shall now no more be known | Y |
| Virtue which the poet's care | Z |
| Has not well consign'd to fame | A2 |
| Lies as in the sepulchre | Z |
| Some old king without a name | A2 |
| But O Humphry great and free | Z |
| While my tuneful songs are read | V |
| Old forgetful Time on thee | Z |
| Dark oblivion ne'er shall spread | V |
| When the deep cut notes shall fade | V |
| On the mouldering Parian stone | Y |
| On the brass no more be read | V |
| The perishing inscription | Q |
| Forgotten all the enemies | B2 |
| Envious G n's cursed spite | V |
| And P l's derogating lies | C2 |
| Lost and sunk in Stygian night | V |
| Still thy labour and thy care | Z |
| What for Dublin thou hast done | Q |
| In full lustre shall appear | Z |
| And outshine th' unclouded sun | Q |
| Large thy mind and not untried | V |
| For Hibernia now doth stand | V |
| Through the calm or raging tide | V |
| Safe conducts the ship to land | V |
| Falsely we call the rich man great | V |
| He is only so that knows | D2 |
| His plentiful or small estate | V |
| Wisely to enjoy and use | E2 |
| He in wealth or poverty | Z |
| Fortune's power alike defies | C2 |
| And falsehood and dishonesty | Z |
| More than death abhors and flies | C2 |
| Flies from death no meets it brave | F2 |
| When the suffering so severe | Z |
| May from dreadful bondage save | F2 |
| Clients friends or country dear | Z |
| This the sovereign man complete | V |
| Hero patriot glorious free | Z |
| Rich and wise and good and great | V |
| Generous Humphry thou art he | Z |
Jonathan Swift
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