Love And War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFGHDIJKLMNOPQR OSTDUSSSVOWSXYDZA2DS B2SC2D2NE2F2 S| Lovers all are soldiers and Cupid has his campaigns | A |
| I tell you Atticus lovers all are soldiers | B |
| Youth is fit for war and also fit for Venus | C |
| Imagine an aged soldier an elderly lover | D |
| A general looks for spirit in his brave soldiery | D |
| a pretty girl wants spirit in her companions | E |
| Both stay up all night long and each sleeps on the ground | F |
| one guards his mistress's doorway one his general's | G |
| The soldier's lot requires far journeys send his girl | H |
| the zealous lover will follow her anywhere | D |
| He'll cross the glowering mountains the rivers swollen with storm | I |
| he'll tread a pathway through the heaped up snows | J |
| and never whine of raging Eurus when he sets sail | K |
| or wait for stars propitious for his voyage | L |
| Who but lovers and soldiers endure the chill of night | M |
| and blizzards interspersed with driving rain | N |
| The soldier reconnoiters among the dangerous foe | O |
| the lover spies to learn his rival's plans | P |
| Soldiers besiege strong cities lovers a harsh girl's home | Q |
| one storms town gates the other storms house doors | R |
| It's clever strategy to raid a sleeping foe | O |
| and slay an unarmed host by force of arms | S |
| That's how the troops of Thracian Rhesus met their doom | T |
| and you O captive steeds forsook your master | D |
| Well lovers take advantage of husbands when they sleep | U |
| launching surprise attacks while the enemy snores | S |
| To slip through bands of guards and watchful sentinels | S |
| is always the soldier's mission and the lover's | S |
| Mars wavers Venus flutters the conquered rise again | V |
| and those you'd think could never fall lie low | O |
| So those who like to say that love is indolent | W |
| should stop Love is the soul of enterprise | S |
| Sad Achilles burns for Briseis his lost darling | X |
| Trojans smash the Greeks' power while you may | Y |
| From Andromache's embrace Hector went to war | D |
| his own wife set the helmet on his head | Z |
| and High King Agamemnon looking on Priam's child | A2 |
| was stunned they say by the Maenad's flowing hair | D |
| And Mars himself was trapped in The Artificer's bonds | S |
| no tale was more notorious in heaven | B2 |
| I too was once an idler born for careless ease | S |
| my shady couch had made my spirit soft | C2 |
| But care for a lovely girl aroused me from my sloth | D2 |
| and bid me to enlist in her campaign | N |
| So now you see me forceful in combat all night long | E2 |
| If you want a life of action fall in love | F2 |
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| translated from the Latin by Jon Corelis | S |
Ovid
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