Georgic 2 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFGHIBJKLMNOPBQ RESCTPPPPEEUVWFPXYZA 2B2C2RPEFD2PAA2PE2F2 YG2VH2I2J2PZEK2PPL2P LM2TN2O2P2Q2PPPPR2PS 2AT2EQU2V2RLPPEEW2CF 2X2EPPSAS2AEAAPKPAPP LKKPPPAPKPAKPPPALVI2 PPKAPB2AKPPPY2A2PEPZ 2KKPPPPKAA3PPB3EEPKK C3EPEKAPPD3PKKKPKThus far the tilth of fields and stars of heaven | A |
Now will I sing thee Bacchus and with thee | B |
The forest's young plantations and the fruit | C |
Of slow maturing olive Hither haste | D |
O Father of the wine press all things here | E |
Teem with the bounties of thy hand for thee | B |
With viny autumn laden blooms the field | F |
And foams the vintage high with brimming vats | G |
Hither O Father of the wine press come | H |
And stripped of buskin stain thy bared limbs | I |
In the new must with me | B |
First nature's law | J |
For generating trees is manifold | K |
For some of their own force spontaneous spring | L |
No hand of man compelling and possess | M |
The plains and river windings far and wide | N |
As pliant osier and the bending broom | O |
Poplar and willows in wan companies | P |
With green leaf glimmering gray and some there be | B |
From chance dropped seed that rear them as the tall | Q |
Chestnuts and mightiest of the branching wood | R |
Jove's Aesculus and oaks oracular | E |
Deemed by the Greeks of old With some sprouts forth | S |
A forest of dense suckers from the root | C |
As elms and cherries so too a pigmy plant | T |
Beneath its mother's mighty shade upshoots | P |
The bay tree of Parnassus Such the modes | P |
Nature imparted first hence all the race | P |
Of forest trees and shrubs and sacred groves | P |
Springs into verdure | E |
Other means there are | E |
Which use by method for itself acquired | U |
One sliving suckers from the tender frame | V |
Of the tree mother plants them in the trench | W |
One buries the bare stumps within his field | F |
Truncheons cleft four wise or sharp pointed stakes | P |
Some forest trees the layer's bent arch await | X |
And slips yet quick within the parent soil | Y |
No root need others nor doth the pruner's hand | Z |
Shrink to restore the topmost shoot to earth | A2 |
That gave it being Nay marvellous to tell | B2 |
Lopped of its limbs the olive a mere stock | C2 |
Still thrusts its root out from the sapless wood | R |
And oft the branches of one kind we see | P |
Change to another's with no loss to rue | E |
Pear tree transformed the ingrafted apple yield | F |
And stony cornels on the plum tree blush | D2 |
Come then and learn what tilth to each belongs | P |
According to their kinds ye husbandmen | A |
And tame with culture the wild fruits lest earth | A2 |
Lie idle O blithe to make all Ismarus | P |
One forest of the wine god and to clothe | E2 |
With olives huge Tabernus And be thou | F2 |
At hand and with me ply the voyage of toil | Y |
I am bound on O my glory O thou that art | G2 |
Justly the chiefest portion of my fame | V |
Maecenas and on this wide ocean launched | H2 |
Spread sail like wings to waft thee Not that I | I2 |
With my poor verse would comprehend the whole | J2 |
Nay though a hundred tongues a hundred mouths | P |
Were mine a voice of iron be thou at hand | Z |
Skirt but the nearer coast line see the shore | E |
Is in our grasp not now with feigned song | K2 |
Through winding bouts and tedious preludings | P |
Shall I detain thee | P |
Those that lift their head | L2 |
Into the realms of light spontaneously | P |
Fruitless indeed but blithe and strenuous spring | L |
Since Nature lurks within the soil And yet | M2 |
Even these should one engraft them or transplant | T |
To well drilled trenches will anon put of | N2 |
Their woodland temper and by frequent tilth | O2 |
To whatso craft thou summon them make speed | P2 |
To follow So likewise will the barren shaft | Q2 |
That from the stock root issueth if it be | P |
Set out with clear space amid open fields | P |
Now the tree mother's towering leaves and boughs | P |
Darken despoil of increase as it grows | P |
And blast it in the bearing Lastly that | R2 |
Which from shed seed ariseth upward wins | P |
But slowly yielding promise of its shade | S2 |
To late born generations apples wane | A |
Forgetful of their former juice the grape | T2 |
Bears sorry clusters for the birds a prey | E |
Soothly on all must toil be spent and all | Q |
Trained to the trench and at great cost subdued | U2 |
But reared from truncheons olives answer best | V2 |
As vines from layers and from the solid wood | R |
The Paphian myrtles while from suckers spring | L |
Both hardy hazels and huge ash the tree | P |
That rims with shade the brows of Hercules | P |
And acorns dear to the Chaonian sire | E |
So springs the towering palm too and the fir | E |
Destined to spy the dangers of the deep | W2 |
But the rough arbutus with walnut fruit | C |
Is grafted so have barren planes ere now | F2 |
Stout apples borne with chestnut flower the beech | X2 |
The mountain ash with pear bloom whitened o'er | E |
And swine crunched acorns 'neath the boughs of elms | P |
Nor is the method of inserting eyes | P |
And grafting one for where the buds push forth | S |
Amidst the bark and burst the membranes thin | A |
Even on the knot a narrow rift is made | S2 |
Wherein from some strange tree a germ they pen | A |
And to the moist rind bid it cleave and grow | E |
Or otherwise in knotless trunks is hewn | A |
A breach and deep into the solid grain | A |
A path with wedges cloven then fruitful slips | P |
Are set herein and no long time behold | K |
To heaven upshot with teeming boughs the tree | P |
Strange leaves admires and fruitage not its own | A |
Nor of one kind alone are sturdy elms | P |
Willow and lotus nor the cypress trees | P |
Of Ida nor of self same fashion spring | L |
Fat olives orchades and radii | K |
And bitter berried pausians no nor yet | K |
Apples and the forests of Alcinous | P |
Nor from like cuttings are Crustumian pears | P |
And Syrian and the heavy hand fillers | P |
Not the same vintage from our trees hangs down | A |
Which Lesbos from Methymna's tendril plucks | P |
Vines Thasian are there Mareotids white | K |
These apt for richer soils for lighter those | P |
Psithian for raisin wine more useful thin | A |
Lageos that one day will try the feet | K |
And tie the tongue purples and early ripes | P |
And how O Rhaetian shall I hymn thy praise | P |
Yet cope not therefore with Falernian bins | P |
Vines Aminaean too best bodied wine | A |
To which the Tmolian bows him ay and king | L |
Phanaeus too and lesser of that name | V |
Argitis wherewith not a grape can vie | I2 |
For gush of wine juice or for length of years | P |
Nor thee must I pass over vine of Rhodes | P |
Welcomed by gods and at the second board | K |
Nor thee Bumastus with plump clusters swollen | A |
But lo how many kinds and what their names | P |
There is no telling nor doth it boot to tell | B2 |
Who lists to know it he too would list to learn | A |
How many sand grains are by Zephyr tossed | K |
On Libya's plain or wot when Eurus falls | P |
With fury on the ships how many waves | P |
Come rolling shoreward from the Ionian sea | P |
Not that all soils can all things bear alike | Y2 |
Willows by water courses have their birth | A2 |
Alders in miry fens on rocky heights | P |
The barren mountain ashes on the shore | E |
Myrtles throng gayest Bacchus lastly loves | P |
The bare hillside and yews the north wind's chill | Z2 |
Mark too the earth by outland tillers tamed | K |
And Eastern homes of Arabs and tattooed | K |
Geloni to all trees their native lands | P |
Allotted are no clime but India bears | P |
Black ebony the branch of frankincense | P |
Is Saba's sons' alone why tell to thee | P |
Of balsams oozing from the perfumed wood | K |
Or berries of acanthus ever green | A |
Of Aethiop forests hoar with downy wool | A3 |
Or how the Seres comb from off the leaves | P |
Their silky fleece Of groves which India bears | P |
Ocean's near neighbour earth's remotest nook | B3 |
Where not an arrow shot can cleave the air | E |
Above their tree tops yet no laggards they | E |
When girded with the quiver Media yields | P |
The bitter juices and slow lingering taste | K |
Of the blest citron fruit than which no aid | K |
Comes timelier when fierce step dames drug the cup | C3 |
With simples mixed and spells of baneful power | E |
To drive the deadly poison from the limbs | P |
Large the tree's self in semblance like a bay | E |
And showered it not a different scent abroad | K |
A bay it had been for no wind of heaven | A |
Its foliage falls the flower none faster clings | P |
With it the Medes for sweetness lave the lips | P |
And ease the panting breathlessness of age | D3 |
But no not Mede land with its wealth of woods | P |
Nor Ganges fair and Hermus thick with gold | K |
Can match the praise of Italy nor Ind | K |
Nor Bactria nor Panchaia one wide tract | K |
Of incense teeming sand Here never bulls | P |
With nostrils snorting fire upt | K |
Publius Vergilius Maro
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