Julia To Ovid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDAAEEFFGGHHIIJKLL AAMMM FFNOPP EEQQFAARRHHAASSTUAA| Written at Twelve Years of Age in imitation of Ovid's Epistles | A |
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| Are love and pow'r incapable to meet | B |
| And must they all be wretched who are great | C |
| Enslav'd by titles and by forms confin'd | D |
| For wretched victims to the state design'd | D |
| What rural maid that my sad fortune knows | A |
| Would quit her cottage to embrace my woes | A |
| Would be this cursed sacrifice to pow'r | E |
| This wretched daughter of Rome's emperour | E |
| When sick with sighs to absent Ovid given | F |
| I tire with vows the unrelenting Heaven | F |
| Drown'd in my tears and with my sorrows pale | G |
| What then do all my kindred gods avail | G |
| Let proud Augustus the whole world subdue | H |
| be mine to place all happiness in you | H |
| With nobler pride I can on throes look down | I |
| Can court your love and can despise a crown | I |
| O Love thou pleasure never dearly bought | J |
| Whose joys exceed the very lover's thought | K |
| Of that soft passion when you teach the art | L |
| In gentle sounds it steals into the heart | L |
| With such sweet magic does the soul surprise | A |
| 'Tis only taught us better by your eyes | A |
| O Ovid first of the inspired train | M |
| To Heaven I speak in that enchanting strain | M |
| So sweet a voice can never plead in vain | M |
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| Apollo will protect his favourite son | F |
| And all the little Loves unto thy succour run | F |
| The Loves and Muses in thy prayer shall join | N |
| And all their wishes and their vows be thine | O |
| Some god will soften my hard Father's breast | P |
| And work a miracle to make thee blest | P |
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| Hard as this is I even could this bear | E |
| But greater ills than what I feel I fear | E |
| My fame my Ovid both for ever fled | Q |
| what greater evil is there left to dread | Q |
| Yes there is one | F |
| Avert it Gods who do my sorrows see | A |
| Avert it thou who art a god to me | A |
| When back to Rome your wishing eyes are cast | R |
| And on the lessening towers you gaze your last | R |
| When fancy shall recal unto your view | H |
| The pleasures now for ever lost to you | H |
| The shining court and all the thousand ways | A |
| To melt the nights and pass the happy days | A |
| Will you not sigh and hate the wretched maid | S |
| Whose fatal love your safety has betray'd | S |
| Say that from me your banishment does come | T |
| And curse the eyes that have expell'd you Rome | U |
| Those eyes which now are weeping for your woes | A |
| The sleep of death shall then for ever close | A |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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EP Ovid & Consequences: Are love and pow'r incapable to meet?
And must they all be wretched who are great?
Reminds me of Lizzo: "Why men great 'til they gotta be great?"
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