Georgic 1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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What makes the cornfield smile beneath what starA
Maecenas it is meet to turn the sodB
Or marry elm with vine how tend the steerC
What pains for cattle keeping or what proofD
Of patient trial serves for thrifty beesE
Such are my themesF
O universal lightsG
Most glorious ye that lead the gliding yearC
Along the sky Liber and Ceres mildH
If by your bounty holpen earth once changedI
Chaonian acorn for the plump wheat earJ
And mingled with the grape your new found giftK
The draughts of Achelous and ye FaunsG
To rustics ever kind come foot it FaunsG
And Dryad maids together your gifts I singL
And thou for whose delight the war horse firstM
Sprang from earth's womb at thy great trident's strokeN
Neptune and haunter of the groves for whomO
Three hundred snow white heifers browse the brakesG
The fertile brakes of Ceos and clothed in powerP
Thy native forest and Lycean lawnsG
Pan shepherd god forsaking as the loveQ
Of thine own Maenalus constrains thee hearJ
And help O lord of Tegea And thou tooR
Minerva from whose hand the olive sprungS
And boy discoverer of the curved ploughT
And bearing a young cypress root uptornU
Silvanus and Gods all and GoddessesG
Who make the fields your care both ye who nurseG
The tender unsown increase and from heavenU
Shed on man's sowing the riches of your rainU
And thou even thou of whom we know not yetV
What mansion of the skies shall hold thee soonU
Whether to watch o'er cities be thy willW
Great Caesar and to take the earth in chargeX
That so the mighty world may welcome theeY
Lord of her increase master of her timesG
Binding thy mother's myrtle round thy browT
Or as the boundless ocean's God thou comeZ
Sole dread of seamen till far Thule bowT
Before thee and Tethys win thee to her sonU
With all her waves for dower or as a starA
Lend thy fresh beams our lagging months to cheerC
Where 'twixt the Maid and those pursuing ClawsG
A space is opening see red Scorpio's selfA2
His arms draws in yea and hath left thee moreB2
Than thy full meed of heaven be what thou wiltC2
For neither Tartarus hopes to call thee kingL
Nor may so dire a lust of sovereigntyY
E'er light upon thee howso Greece admireD2
Elysium's fields and Proserpine not heedE2
Her mother's voice entreating to returnU
Vouchsafe a prosperous voyage and smile on thisG
My bold endeavour and pitying even as IF2
These poor way wildered swains at once beginU
Grow timely used unto the voice of prayerG2
In early spring tide when the icy dripH2
Melts from the mountains hoar and Zephyr's breathI2
Unbinds the crumbling clod even then 'tis timeJ2
Press deep your plough behind the groaning oxG
And teach the furrow burnished share to shineU
That land the craving farmer's prayer fulfilsG
Which twice the sunshine twice the frost has feltK2
Ay that's the land whose boundless harvest cropsG
Burst see the barnsG
But ere our metal cleaveL2
An unknown surface heed we to forelearnU
The winds and varying temper of the skyF2
The lineal tilth and habits of the spotM2
What every region yields and what deniesG
Here blithelier springs the corn and here the grapeN2
There earth is green with tender growth of treesG
And grass unbidden See how from Tmolus comesG
The saffron's fragrance ivory from IndM2
From Saba's weakling sons their frankincenseG
Iron from the naked Chalybs castor rankO2
From Pontus from Epirus the prize palmsG
O' the mares of ElisG
Such the eternal bondM2
And such the laws by Nature's hand imposedM2
On clime and clime e'er since the primal dawnU
When old Deucalion on the unpeopled earthP2
Cast stones whence men a flinty race were rearedM2
Up then if fat the soil let sturdy bullsG
Upturn it from the year's first opening monthsG
And let the clods lie bare till baked to dustM2
By the ripe suns of summer but if the earthP2
Less fruitful just ere Arcturus riseG
With shallower trench uptilt it 'twill sufficeG
There lest weeds choke the crop's luxuriance hereJ
Lest the scant moisture fail the barren sandM2
Then thou shalt suffer in alternate yearsG
The new reaped fields to rest and on the plainU
A crust of sloth to harden or when starsG
Are changed in heaven there sow the golden grainU
Where erst luxuriant with its quivering podM2
Pulse or the slender vetch crop thou hast clearedM2
And lupin sour whose brittle stalks ariseG
A hurtling forest For the plain is parchedM2
By flax crop parched by oats by poppies parchedM2
In Lethe slumber drenched Nathless by changeQ2
The travailing earth is lightened but stint notM2
With refuse rich to soak the thirsty soilR2
And shower foul ashes o'er the exhausted fieldsG
Thus by rotation like repose is gainedM2
Nor earth meanwhile uneared and thankless leftM2
Oft too 'twill boot to fire the naked fieldsG
And the light stubble burn with crackling flamesG
Whether that earth therefrom some hidden strengthS2
And fattening food derives or that the fireP
Bakes every blemish out and sweats awayT2
Each useless humour or that the heat unlocksG
New passages and secret pores wherebyF2
Their life juice to the tender blades may winU
Or that it hardens more and helps to bindM2
The gaping veins lest penetrating showersG
Or fierce sun's ravening might or searching blastM2
Of the keen north should sear them Well I wotM2
He serves the fields who with his harrow breaksG
The sluggish clods and hurdles osier twinedM2
Hales o'er them from the far Olympian heightM2
Him golden Ceres not in vain regardsG
And he who having ploughed the fallow plainU
And heaved its furrowy ridges turns once moreB2
Cross wise his shattering share with stroke on strokeN
The earth assails and makes the field his thrallU2
Pray for wet summers and for winters fineU
Ye husbandmen in winter's dust the cropsG
Exceedingly rejoice the field hath joyV2
No tilth makes Mysia lift her head so highF2
Nor Gargarus his own harvests so admireD2
Why tell of him who having launched his seedM2
Sets on for close encounter and rakes smoothW2
The dry dust hillocks then on the tender cornU
Lets in the flood whose waters follow fainU
And when the parched field quivers and all the bladesG
Are dying from the brow of its hill bedM2
See see he lures the runnel down it fallsG
Waking hoarse murmurs o'er the polished stonesG
And with its bubblings slakes the thirsty fieldsG
Or why of him who lest the heavy earsG
O'erweigh the stalk while yet in tender bladeM2
Feeds down the crop's luxuriance when its growthX2
First tops the furrows Why of him who drainsG
The marsh land's gathered ooze through soaking sandM2
Chiefly what time in treacherous moons a streamY2
Goes out in spate and with its coat of slimeJ2
Holds all the country whence the hollow dykesG
Sweat steaming vapourD2
But no whit the moreD2
For all expedients tried and travail borneU
By man and beast in turning oft the soilR2
Do greedy goose and Strymon haunting cranesG
And succory's bitter fibres cease to harmZ2
Or shade not injure The great Sire himselfA2
No easy road to husbandry assignedM2
And first was he by human skill to rouseG
The slumbering glebe whetting the minds of menU
With care on care nor suffering realm of hisG
In drowsy sloth to stagnate Before JoveA2
Fields knew no taming hand of husbandmenU
To mark the plain or mete with boundary lineU
Even this was impious for the common stockA3
They gathered and the earth of her own willW
All things more freely no man bidding boreD2
He to black serpents gave their venom baneU
And bade the wolf go prowl and ocean tossG
Shook from the leaves their honey put fire awayT2
And curbed the random rivers running wineU
That use by gradual dint of thought on thoughtM2
Might forge the various arts with furrow's helpB3
The corn blade win and strike out hidden fireD2
From the flint's heart Then first the streams were wareD2
Of hollowed alder hulls the sailor thenU
Their names and numbers gave to star and starD2
Pleiads and Hyads and Lycaon's childM2
Bright Arctos how with nooses then was foundM2
To catch wild beasts and cozen them with limeJ2
And hem with hounds the mighty forest gladesG
Soon one with hand net scourges the broad streamY2
Probing its depths one drags hisG

Publius Vergilius Maro



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