Metamorphoses: Book 14 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFFGGHHCDIJJBKK FFLLMMNOIIPPFFFFFFFF FFQQFFFFFFMM R OMF| Now Glaucus with a lover's haste bounds o'er | A |
| The swelling waves and seeks the Latian shore | B |
| Messena Rhegium and the barren coast | C |
| Of flaming Aetna to his sight are lost | D |
| At length he gains the Tyrrhene seas and views | E |
| The hills where baneful philters Circe brews | E |
| Monsters in various forms around her press | F |
| As thus the God salutes the sorceress | F |
| The O Circe be indulgent to my grief | G |
| Transformation And give a love sick deity relief | G |
| of Scylla Too well the mighty pow'r of plants I know | H |
| To those my figure and new Fate I owe | H |
| Against Messena on th' Ausonian coast | C |
| I Scylla view'd and from that hour was lost | D |
| In tend'rest sounds I su'd but still the fair | I |
| Was deaf to vows and pityless to pray'r | J |
| If numbers can avail exert their pow'r | J |
| Or energy of plants if plants have more | B |
| I ask no cure let but the virgin pine | K |
| With dying pangs or agonies like mine | K |
| No longer Circe could her flame disguise | F |
| But to the suppliant God marine replies | F |
| When maids are coy have manlier aims in view | L |
| Leave those that fly but those that like pursue | L |
| If love can be by kind compliance won | M |
| See at your feet the daughter of the Sun | M |
| Sooner said Glaucus shall the ash remove | N |
| From mountains and the swelling surges love | O |
| Or humble sea weed to the hills repair | I |
| E'er I think any but my Scylla fair | I |
| Strait Circe reddens with a guilty shame | P |
| And vows revenge for her rejected flame | P |
| Fierce liking oft a spight as fierce creates | F |
| For love refus'd without aversion hates | F |
| To hurt her hapless rival she proceeds | F |
| And by the fall of Scylla Glaucus bleeds | F |
| Some fascinating bev'rage now she brews | F |
| Compos'd of deadly drugs and baneful juice | F |
| At Rhegium she arrives the ocean braves | F |
| And treads with unwet feet the boiling waves | F |
| Upon the beach a winding bay there lies | F |
| Shelter'd from seas and shaded from the skies | F |
| This station Scylla chose a soft retreat | Q |
| From chilling winds and raging Cancer's heat | Q |
| The vengeful sorc'ress visits this recess | F |
| Her charm infuses and infects the place | F |
| Soon as the nymph wades in her nether parts | F |
| Turn into dogs then at her self she starts | F |
| A ghastly horror in her eyes appears | F |
| But yet she knows not who it is she fears | F |
| In vain she offers from her self to run | M |
| And drags about her what she strives to shun | M |
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| The End of the Fourteenth Book | R |
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| Translated into English verse under the direction of | O |
| Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden Alexander Pope Joseph Addison | M |
| William Congreve and other eminent hands | F |
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