Gualterus Danistonus, Ad Amicos. - And Imitation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCADABEFGBBBBFBBBA BB A HIBBJJKLGGBBBBAAMMDD GGMMNNFFMMGGEEE| Dum studeo fungi fallentis munere vitae | A |
| Adfectoque viam sedibus Elysiis | B |
| Arctoa florens sophia Samiisque superbus | B |
| Discipulis animas morte carere cano | C |
| Has ego corporibus profugas ad sidera mitto | A |
| Sideraque ingressis otia blanda dico | D |
| Qualia conveniunt divis queis fata volebant | A |
| Vitai faciles molliter ire vias | B |
| Vinaque coelicolis media inter gaudia libo | E |
| Et me quid majus suspicor esse viro | F |
| Sed fuerint nulli forsan quos spondeo coeli | G |
| Nullaque sint Ditis numina nulla Jovis | B |
| Fabula sit torris agitur quae vita relictis | B |
| Quique superstes homo qui nihil esto Deus | B |
| Attamen esse hilares et inanes mittere curas | B |
| Proderit ac vitae commoditate frui | F |
| Et festos agitasse dies aevique fugacis | B |
| Tempora perpetuis detinuisse jocis | B |
| His me parentem praeceptis occupet orcus | B |
| Et mors seu divum seu nihil esse velit | A |
| Nam sophia ars illa est quae fallere suaviter hoyas | B |
| Admonet atque orci non timuisse minas | B |
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| Imitated | A |
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| Studious the busy moments to deceive | H |
| That fleet between the cradle and the grave | I |
| I credit what the Grecian dictates say | B |
| And Samian sounds o'er Scotia's hills convey | B |
| When mortal man resigns his transient breath | J |
| The body only I give o'er to death | J |
| The parts dissolved and broken frame I mourn | K |
| What came from earth I see to earth return | L |
| The immaterial part th' ethereal soul | G |
| Nor can change vanquish nor can death control | G |
| Glad I release it from its partner's cares | B |
| And bid good angels waft it to the stars | B |
| Then in the flowing bowl I drown those sighs | B |
| Which spite of wisdom from our weakness rise | B |
| The draught to the dead's memory I commend | A |
| And offer to thee now immortal friend | A |
| But if opposed to what my thoughts approve | M |
| Nor Pluto's rage there be nor power of Jove | M |
| On its dark side if thou the prospect take | D |
| Grant all forgot beyond black Lethe's lake | D |
| In total death suppose the mortal lie | G |
| No new hereafter nor a future sky | G |
| Yet bear thy lot content yet cease to grieve | M |
| Why ere death comes dost thou forbear to live | M |
| The little time thou hast 'twixt instant now | N |
| And Fate's approach is all the gods allow | N |
| And of this little hast thou ought to spare | F |
| To sad reflection and corroding care | F |
| The moments past if thou art wise retrieve | M |
| With pleasant memory of the bliss they gave | M |
| The present hours in present mirth employ | G |
| And bribe the future with the hopes of joy | G |
| The future few or more howe'er they be | E |
| Where destined erst nor can by Fate's decree | E |
| Be now cut off betwixt the grave and thee | E |
Matthew Prior
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