Eclogue 9: Lycidas Moeris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC A ADEBFB A A GBAAHI ABAJAKLMN AOPAQRSNTNJP ANPU ABVWAXYPA AAAZNA2APB2 AAC2A AD2E2F2BAAG2 NH2JBI2B AJ2K2L2M2AN2BBO2AP2 AHB2LYCIDAS | A |
Say whither Moeris Make you for the town | B |
Or on what errand bent | C |
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MOERIS | A |
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O Lycidas | A |
We have lived to see what never yet we feared | D |
An interloper own our little farm | E |
And say 'Be off you former husbandmen | B |
These fields are mine ' Now cowed and out of heart | F |
Since Fortune turns the whole world upside down | B |
We are taking him ill luck go with the same ' | - |
These kids you see | A |
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LYCIDAS | A |
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But surely I had heard | G |
That where the hills first draw from off the plain | B |
And the high ridge with gentle slope descends | A |
Down to the brook side and the broken crests | A |
Of yonder veteran beeches all the land | H |
Was by the songs of your Menalcas saved | I |
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MOERIS | A |
Heard it you had and so the rumour ran | B |
But 'mid the clash of arms my Lycidas | A |
Our songs avail no more than as 'tis said | J |
Doves of Dodona when an eagle comes | A |
Nay had I not from hollow ilex bole | K |
Warned by a raven on the left cut short | L |
The rising feud nor I your Moeris here | M |
No nor Menalcas were alive to day | N |
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LYCIDAS | A |
Alack could any of so foul a crime | O |
Be guilty Ah how nearly thyself | P |
Reft was the solace that we had in thee | A |
Menalcas Who then of the Nymphs had sung | Q |
Or who with flowering herbs bestrewn the ground | R |
And o'er the fountains drawn a leafy veil | S |
Who sung the stave I filched from you that day | N |
To Amaryllis wending our hearts' joy | T |
'While I am gone 'tis but a little way | N |
Feed Tityrus my goats and having fed | J |
Drive to the drinking pool and as you drive | P |
Beware the he goat with his horn he butts ' | - |
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MOERIS | A |
Ay or to Varus that half finished lay | N |
'Varus thy name so still our Mantua live | P |
Mantua to poor Cremona all too near | U |
Shall singing swans bear upward to the stars ' | - |
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LYCIDAS | A |
So may your swarms Cyrnean yew trees shun | B |
Your kine with cytisus their udders swell | V |
Begin if aught you have The Muses made | W |
Me too a singer I too have sung the swains | A |
Call me a poet but I believe them not | X |
For naught of mine or worthy Varius yet | Y |
Or Cinna deem I but account myself | P |
A cackling goose among melodious swans | A |
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MOERIS | A |
'Twas in my thought to do so Lycidas | A |
Even now was I revolving silently | A |
If this I could recall no paltry song | Z |
'Come Galatea what pleasure is 't to play | N |
Amid the waves Here glows the Spring here earth | A2 |
Beside the streams pours forth a thousand flowers | A |
Here the white poplar bends above the cave | P |
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert come | B2 |
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore ' | - |
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LYCIDAS | A |
What of the strain I heard you singing once | A |
On a clear night alone the notes I still | C2 |
Remember could I but recall the words | A |
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MOERIS | A |
'Why Daphnis upward gazing do you mark | D2 |
The ancient risings of the Signs for look | E2 |
Where Dionean Caesar's star comes forth | F2 |
In heaven to gladden all the fields with corn | B |
And to the grape upon the sunny slopes | A |
Her colour bring Now the pears | A |
So shall your children's children pluck their fruit | G2 |
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Time carries all things even our wits away | N |
Oft as a boy I sang the sun to rest | H2 |
But all those songs are from my memory fled | J |
And even his voice is failing Moeris now | B |
The wolves eyed Moeris first but at your wish | I2 |
Menalcas will repeat them oft enow | B |
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LYCIDAS | A |
Your pleas but linger out my heart's desire | J2 |
Now all the deep is into silence hushed | K2 |
And all the murmuring breezes sunk to sleep | L2 |
We are half way thither for Bianor's tomb | M2 |
Begins to show here Moeris where the hinds | A |
Are lopping the thick leafage let us sing | N2 |
Set down the kids yet shall we reach the town | B |
Or if we fear the night may gather rain | B |
Ere we arrive then singing let us go | O2 |
Our way to lighten and that we may thus | A |
Go singing I will case you of this load | P2 |
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MOERIS | A |
Cease boy and get we to the work in hand | H |
We shall sing better when himself is come | B2 |
Publius Vergilius Maro
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