Horatian Echo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DEFGGF HHIJJI KKLMML NNODDO PPQIIQ| Omit omit my simple friend | A |
| Still to inquire how parties tend | A |
| Or what we fix with foreign powers | B |
| If France and we are really friends | C |
| And what the Russian Czar intends | C |
| Is no concern of ours | B |
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| Us not the daily quickening race | D |
| Of the invading populace | E |
| Shall draw to swell that shouldering herd | F |
| Mourn will we not your closing hour | G |
| Ye imbeciles in present power | G |
| Doom'd pompous and absurd | F |
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| And let us bear that they debate | H |
| Of all the engine work of state | H |
| Of commerce laws and policy | I |
| The secrets of the world's machine | J |
| And what the rights of man may mean | J |
| With readier tongue than we | I |
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| Only that with no finer art | K |
| They cloak the troubles of the heart | K |
| With pleasant smile let us take care | L |
| Nor with a lighter hand dispose | M |
| Fresh garlands of this dewy rose | M |
| To crown Eugenia's hair | L |
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| Of little threads our life is spun | N |
| And he spins ill who misses one | N |
| But is thy fair Eugenia cold | O |
| Yet Helen had an equal grace | D |
| And Juliet's was as fair a face | D |
| And now their years are told | O |
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| The day approaches when we must | P |
| Be crumbling bones and windy dust | P |
| And scorn us as our mistress may | Q |
| Her beauty will no better be | I |
| Than the poor face she slights in thee | I |
| When dawns that day that day | Q |
Matthew Arnold
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