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 AHB2

LYCIDASA
Say whither Moeris Make you for the townB
Or on what errand bentC
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MOERISA
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O LycidasA
We have lived to see what never yet we fearedD
An interloper own our little farmE
And say 'Be off you former husbandmenB
These fields are mine ' Now cowed and out of heartF
Since Fortune turns the whole world upside downB
We are taking him ill luck go with the same '-
These kids you seeA
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LYCIDASA
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But surely I had heardG
That where the hills first draw from off the plainB
And the high ridge with gentle slope descendsA
Down to the brook side and the broken crestsA
Of yonder veteran beeches all the landH
Was by the songs of your Menalcas savedI
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MOERISA
Heard it you had and so the rumour ranB
But 'mid the clash of arms my LycidasA
Our songs avail no more than as 'tis saidJ
Doves of Dodona when an eagle comesA
Nay had I not from hollow ilex boleK
Warned by a raven on the left cut shortL
The rising feud nor I your Moeris hereM
No nor Menalcas were alive to dayN
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LYCIDASA
Alack could any of so foul a crimeO
Be guilty Ah how nearly thyselfP
Reft was the solace that we had in theeA
Menalcas Who then of the Nymphs had sungQ
Or who with flowering herbs bestrewn the groundR
And o'er the fountains drawn a leafy veilS
Who sung the stave I filched from you that dayN
To Amaryllis wending our hearts' joyT
'While I am gone 'tis but a little wayN
Feed Tityrus my goats and having fedJ
Drive to the drinking pool and as you driveP
Beware the he goat with his horn he butts '-
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MOERISA
Ay or to Varus that half finished layN
'Varus thy name so still our Mantua liveP
Mantua to poor Cremona all too nearU
Shall singing swans bear upward to the stars '-
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LYCIDASA
So may your swarms Cyrnean yew trees shunB
Your kine with cytisus their udders swellV
Begin if aught you have The Muses madeW
Me too a singer I too have sung the swainsA
Call me a poet but I believe them notX
For naught of mine or worthy Varius yetY
Or Cinna deem I but account myselfP
A cackling goose among melodious swansA
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MOERISA
'Twas in my thought to do so LycidasA
Even now was I revolving silentlyA
If this I could recall no paltry songZ
'Come Galatea what pleasure is 't to playN
Amid the waves Here glows the Spring here earthA2
Beside the streams pours forth a thousand flowersA
Here the white poplar bends above the caveP
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert comeB2
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore '-
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LYCIDASA
What of the strain I heard you singing onceA
On a clear night alone the notes I stillC2
Remember could I but recall the wordsA
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MOERISA
'Why Daphnis upward gazing do you markD2
The ancient risings of the Signs for lookE2
Where Dionean Caesar's star comes forthF2
In heaven to gladden all the fields with cornB
And to the grape upon the sunny slopesA
Her colour bring Now the pearsA
So shall your children's children pluck their fruitG2
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Time carries all things even our wits awayN
Oft as a boy I sang the sun to restH2
But all those songs are from my memory fledJ
And even his voice is failing Moeris nowB
The wolves eyed Moeris first but at your wishI2
Menalcas will repeat them oft enowB
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LYCIDASA
Your pleas but linger out my heart's desireJ2
Now all the deep is into silence hushedK2
And all the murmuring breezes sunk to sleepL2
We are half way thither for Bianor's tombM2
Begins to show here Moeris where the hindsA
Are lopping the thick leafage let us singN2
Set down the kids yet shall we reach the townB
Or if we fear the night may gather rainB
Ere we arrive then singing let us goO2
Our way to lighten and that we may thusA
Go singing I will case you of this loadP2
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MOERISA
Cease boy and get we to the work in handH
We shall sing better when himself is comeB2

Publius Vergilius Maro



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