Georgic 3 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGBGHCIJKLMNOCP QRQSGTUQVWXYZA2A2B2C 2A2QD2A2QE2B2A2F2QB2 QA2G2A2QH2A2A2A2A2E2 DGI2QGJ2A2QK2SL2M2QN 2GO2DA2A2GQQA2QP2QE2 XQ2BEA2OD2QQP2R2QS2T 2QU2V2W2A2X2Y2N2QB2A 2GZ2QY2QB2QA2GA3QN2A 2N2GD2QP2QB3B2P2QC3G F2Y2FA2QQQK2D3QN2QE3 P2B2Y2QRA3QW2A2QQQN2 GY2QA2F2F3N2A2GF2G3Q A2A2A2A2A2A2Thee too great Pales will I hymn and thee | A |
Amphrysian shepherd worthy to be sung | B |
You woods and waves Lycaean All themes beside | C |
Which else had charmed the vacant mind with song | D |
Are now waxed common Of harsh Eurystheus who | E |
The story knows not or that praiseless king | F |
Busiris and his altars or by whom | G |
Hath not the tale been told of Hylas young | B |
Latonian Delos and Hippodame | G |
And Pelops for his ivory shoulder famed | H |
Keen charioteer Needs must a path be tried | C |
By which I too may lift me from the dust | I |
And float triumphant through the mouths of men | J |
Yea I shall be the first so life endure | K |
To lead the Muses with me as I pass | L |
To mine own country from the Aonian height | M |
I Mantua first will bring thee back the palms | N |
Of Idumaea and raise a marble shrine | O |
On thy green plain fast by the water side | C |
Where Mincius winds more vast in lazy coils | P |
And rims his margent with the tender reed | Q |
Amid my shrine shall Caesar's godhead dwell | R |
To him will I as victor bravely dight | Q |
In Tyrian purple drive along the bank | S |
A hundred four horse cars All Greece for me | G |
Leaving Alpheus and Molorchus' grove | T |
On foot shall strive or with the raw hide glove | U |
Whilst I my head with stripped green olive crowned | Q |
Will offer gifts Even 'tis present joy | V |
To lead the high processions to the fane | W |
And view the victims felled or how the scene | X |
Sunders with shifted face and Britain's sons | Y |
Inwoven thereon with those proud curtains rise | Z |
Of gold and massive ivory on the doors | A2 |
I'll trace the battle of the Gangarides | A2 |
And our Quirinus' conquering arms and there | B2 |
Surging with war and hugely flowing the Nile | C2 |
And columns heaped on high with naval brass | A2 |
And Asia's vanquished cities I will add | Q |
And quelled Niphates and the Parthian foe | D2 |
Who trusts in flight and backward volleying darts | A2 |
And trophies torn with twice triumphant hand | Q |
From empires twain on ocean's either shore | E2 |
And breathing forms of Parian marble there | B2 |
Shall stand the offspring of Assaracus | A2 |
And great names of the Jove descended folk | F2 |
And father Tros and Troy's first founder lord | Q |
Of Cynthus And accursed Envy there | B2 |
Shall dread the Furies and thy ruthless flood | Q |
Cocytus and Ixion's twisted snakes | A2 |
And that vast wheel and ever baffling stone | G2 |
Meanwhile the Dryad haunted woods and lawns | A2 |
Unsullied seek we 'tis thy hard behest | Q |
Maecenas Without thee no lofty task | H2 |
My mind essays Up break the sluggish bonds | A2 |
Of tarriance with loud din Cithaeron calls | A2 |
Steed taming Epidaurus and thy hounds | A2 |
Taygete and hark the assenting groves | A2 |
With peal on peal reverberate the roar | E2 |
Yet must I gird me to rehearse ere long | D |
The fiery fights of Caesar speed his name | G |
Through ages countless as to Caesar's self | I2 |
From the first birth dawn of Tithonus old | Q |
If eager for the prized Olympian palm | G |
One breed the horse or bullock strong to plough | J2 |
Be his prime care a shapely dam to choose | A2 |
Of kine grim faced is goodliest with coarse head | Q |
And burly neck whose hanging dewlaps reach | K2 |
From chin to knee of boundless length her flank | S |
Large every way she is large footed even | L2 |
With incurved horns and shaggy ears beneath | M2 |
Nor let mislike me one with spots of white | Q |
Conspicuous or that spurns the yoke whose horn | N2 |
At times hath vice in't liker bull faced she | G |
And tall limbed wholly and with tip of tail | O2 |
Brushing her footsteps as she walks along | D |
The age for Hymen's rites Lucina's pangs | A2 |
Ere ten years ended after four begins | A2 |
Their residue of days nor apt to teem | G |
Nor strong for ploughing Meantime while youth's delight | Q |
Survives within them loose the males be first | Q |
To speed thy herds of cattle to their loves | A2 |
Breed stock with stock and keep the race supplied | Q |
Ah life's best hours are ever first to fly | P2 |
From hapless mortals in their place succeed | Q |
Disease and dolorous eld till travail sore | E2 |
And death unpitying sweep them from the scene | X |
Still will be some whose form thou fain wouldst change | Q2 |
Renew them still with yearly choice of young | B |
Preventing losses lest too late thou rue | E |
Nor steeds crave less selection but on those | A2 |
Thou think'st to rear the promise of their line | O |
From earliest youth thy chiefest pains bestow | D2 |
See from the first yon high bred colt afield | Q |
His lofty step his limbs' elastic tread | Q |
Dauntless he leads the herd still first to try | P2 |
The threatening flood or brave the unknown bridge | R2 |
By no vain noise affrighted lofty necked | Q |
With clean cut head short belly and stout back | S2 |
His sprightly breast exuberant with brawn | T2 |
Chestnut and grey are good the worst hued white | Q |
And sorrel Then lo if arms are clashed afar | U2 |
Bide still he cannot ears stiffen and limbs quake | V2 |
His nostrils snort and roll out wreaths of fire | W2 |
Dense is his mane that when uplifted falls | A2 |
On his right shoulder betwixt either loin | X2 |
The spine runs double his earth dinting hoof | Y2 |
Rings with the ponderous beat of solid horn | N2 |
Even such a horse was Cyllarus reined and tamed | Q |
By Pollux of Amyclae such the pair | B2 |
In Grecian song renowned those steeds of Mars | A2 |
And famed Achilles' team in such like form | G |
Great Saturn's self with mane flung loose on neck | Z2 |
Sped at his wife's approach and flying filled | Q |
The heights of Pelion with his piercing neigh | Y2 |
Even him when sore disease or sluggish eld | Q |
Now saps his strength pen fast at home and spare | B2 |
His not inglorious age A horse grown old | Q |
Slow kindling unto love in vain prolongs | A2 |
The fruitless task and to the encounter come | G |
As fire in stubble blusters without strength | A3 |
He rages idly Therefore mark thou first | Q |
Their age and mettle other points anon | N2 |
As breed and lineage or what pain was theirs | A2 |
To lose the race what pride the palm to win | N2 |
Seest how the chariots in mad rivalry | G |
Poured from the barrier grip the course and go | D2 |
When youthful hope is highest and every heart | Q |
Drained with each wild pulsation How they ply | P2 |
The circling lash and reaching forward let | Q |
The reins hang free Swift spins the glowing wheel | B3 |
And now they stoop and now erect in air | B2 |
Seem borne through space and towering to the sky | P2 |
No stop no stay the dun sand whirls aloft | Q |
They reek with foam flakes and pursuing breath | C3 |
So sweet is fame so prized the victor's palm | G |
'Twas Ericthonius first took heart to yoke | F2 |
Four horses to his car and rode above | Y2 |
The whirling wheels to victory but the ring | F |
And bridle reins mounted on horses' backs | A2 |
The Pelethronian Lapithae bequeathed | Q |
And taught the knight in arms to spurn the ground | Q |
And arch the upgathered footsteps of his pride | Q |
Each task alike is arduous and for each | K2 |
A horse young fiery swift of foot they seek | D3 |
How oft so e'er yon rival may have chased | Q |
The flying foe or boast his native plain | N2 |
Epirus or Mycenae's stubborn hold | Q |
And trace his lineage back to Neptune's birth | E3 |
These points regarded as the time draws nigh | P2 |
With instant zeal they lavish all their care | B2 |
To plump with solid fat the chosen chief | Y2 |
And designated husband of the herd | Q |
And flowery herbs they cut and serve him well | R |
With corn and running water that his strength | A3 |
Not fail him for that labour of delight | Q |
Nor puny colts betray the feeble sire | W2 |
The herd itself of purpose they reduce | A2 |
To leanness and when love's sweet longing first | Q |
Provokes them they forbid the leafy food | Q |
And pen them from the springs and oft beside | Q |
With running shake and tire them in the sun | N2 |
What time the threshing floor groans heavily | G |
With pounding of the corn ears and light chaff | Y2 |
Is whirled on high to catch the rising west | Q |
This do they that the soil's prolific powers | A2 |
May not be dulled by surfeiting nor choke | F2 |
The sluggish furrows but eagerly absorb | F3 |
Their fill of love and deeply entertain | N2 |
To care of sire the mother's care succeeds | A2 |
When great with young they wander nigh their time | G |
Let no man suffer them to drag the yoke | F2 |
In heavy wains nor leap across the way | G3 |
Nor scour the meads nor swim the rushing flood | Q |
In lonely lawns they feed them by the course | A2 |
Of brimming streams where moss is and the banks | A2 |
With grass are greenest where are sheltering caves | A2 |
And far outstretched the rock flung shadow lies | A2 |
Round wooded Silarus and the ilex bowers | A2 |
Of green Alburnus | A2 |
Publius Vergilius Maro
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