The Aeneid Of Virgil: Book 7 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDBEEEFFGGEEHHI JEEKLEEEEEEMMNNOOEPE EQQPEEEEEHHRLSSEETTU UEEVVEEEEAAWWEEEEEEE EEEXXEEEEYYEEEEEZEEA 2A2B2C2D2D2D2LLE2E2L LEEF2F2EEEEEEEZEEG2G 2JJH2H2NI2EEEEE2E2E2 J2J2EEEEEWWEEEEELLEE K2K2NNL2L2EEEEEM2AND thou O matron of immortal fame | A |
Here dying to the shore hast left thy name | A |
Cajeta still the place is call d from thee | B |
The nurse of great neas infancy | B |
Here rest thy bones in rich Hesperia s plains | C |
Thy name t is all a ghost can have remains | C |
Now when the prince her fun ral rites had paid | D |
He plow d the Tyrrhene seas with sails display d | B |
From land a gentle breeze arose by night | E |
Serenely shone the stars the moon was bright | E |
And the sea trembled with her silver light | E |
Now near the shelves of Circe s shores they run | F |
Circe the rich the daughter of the Sun | F |
A dang rous coast the goddess wastes her days | G |
In joyous songs the rocks resound her lays | G |
In spinning or the loom she spends the night | E |
And cedar brands supply her father s light | E |
From hence were heard rebellowing to the main | H |
The roars of lions that refuse the chain | H |
The grunts of bristled boars and groans of bears | I |
And herds of howling wolves that stun the sailors ears | J |
These from their caverns at the close of night | E |
Fill the sad isle with horror and affright | E |
Darkling they mourn their fate whom Circe s pow r | K |
That watch d the moon and planetary hour | L |
With words and wicked herbs from humankind | E |
Had alter d and in brutal shapes confin d | E |
Which monsters lest the Trojans pious host | E |
Should bear or touch upon th inchanted coast | E |
Propitious Neptune steer d their course by night | E |
With rising gales that sped their happy flight | E |
Supplied with these they skim the sounding shore | M |
And hear the swelling surges vainly roar | M |
Now when the rosy morn began to rise | N |
And wav d her saffron streamer thro the skies | N |
When Thetis blush d in purple not her own | O |
And from her face the breathing winds were blown | O |
A sudden silence sate upon the sea | E |
And sweeping oars with struggling urge their way | P |
The Trojan from the main beheld a wood | E |
Which thick with shades and a brown horror stood | E |
Betwixt the trees the Tiber took his course | Q |
With whirlpools dimpled and with downward force | Q |
That drove the sand along he took his way | P |
And roll d his yellow billows to the sea | E |
About him and above and round the wood | E |
The birds that haunt the borders of his flood | E |
That bath d within or basked upon his side | E |
To tuneful songs their narrow throats applied | E |
The captain gives command the joyful train | H |
Glide thro the gloomy shade and leave the main | H |
Now Erato thy poet s mind inspire | R |
And fill his soul with thy celestial fire | L |
Relate what Latium was her ancient kings | S |
Declare the past and present state of things | S |
When first the Trojan fleet Ausonia sought | E |
And how the rivals lov d and how they fought | E |
These are my theme and how the war began | T |
And how concluded by the godlike man | T |
For I shall sing of battles blood and rage | U |
Which princes and their people did engage | U |
And haughty souls that mov d with mutual hate | E |
In fighting fields pursued and found their fate | E |
That rous d the Tyrrhene realm with loud alarms | V |
And peaceful Italy involv d in arms | V |
A larger scene of action is display d | E |
And rising hence a greater work is weigh d | E |
Latinus old and mild had long possess d | E |
The Latin scepter and his people blest | E |
His father Faunus a Laurentian dame | A |
His mother fair Marica was her name | A |
But Faunus came from Picus Picus drew | W |
His birth from Saturn if records be true | W |
Thus King Latinus in the third degree | E |
Had Saturn author of his family | E |
But this old peaceful prince as Heav n decreed | E |
Was blest with no male issue to succeed | E |
His sons in blooming youth were snatch d by fate | E |
One only daughter heir d the royal state | E |
Fir d with her love and with ambition led | E |
The neighb ring princes court her nuptial bed | E |
Among the crowd but far above the rest | E |
Young Turnus to the beauteous maid address d | E |
Turnus for high descent and graceful mien | X |
Was first and favor d by the Latian queen | X |
With him she strove to join Lavinia s hand | E |
But dire portents the purpos d match withstand | E |
Deep in the palace of long growth there stood | E |
A laurel s trunk a venerable wood | E |
Where rites divine were paid whose holy hair | Y |
Was kept and cut with superstitious care | Y |
This plant Latinus when his town he wall d | E |
Then found and from the tree Laurentum call d | E |
And last in honor of his new abode | E |
He vow d the laurel to the laurel s god | E |
It happen d once a boding prodigy | E |
A swarm of bees that cut the liquid sky | Z |
Unknown from whence they took their airy flight | E |
Upon the topmost branch in clouds alight | E |
There with their clasping feet together clung | A2 |
And a long cluster from the laurel hung | A2 |
An ancient augur prophesied from hence | B2 |
Behold on Latian shores a foreign prince | C2 |
From the same parts of heav n his navy stands | D2 |
To the same parts on earth his army lands | D2 |
The town he conquers and the tow r commands | D2 |
Yet more when fair Lavinia fed the fire | L |
Before the gods and stood beside her sire | L |
Strange to relate the flames involv d in smoke | E2 |
Of incense from the sacred altar broke | E2 |
Caught her dishevel d hair and rich attire | L |
Her crown and jewels crackled in the fire | L |
From thence the fuming trail began to spread | E |
And lambent glories danc d about her head | E |
This new portent the seer with wonder views | F2 |
Then pausing thus his prophecy renews | F2 |
The nymph who scatters flaming fires around | E |
Shall shine with honor shall herself be crown d | E |
But caus d by her irrevocable fate | E |
War shall the country waste and change the state | E |
Latinus frighted with this dire ostent | E |
For counsel to his father Faunus went | E |
And sought the shades renown d for prophecy | E |
Which near Albunea s sulph rous fountain lie | Z |
To these the Latian and the Sabine land | E |
Fly when distress d and thence relief demand | E |
The priest on skins of off rings takes his ease | G2 |
And nightly visions in his slumber sees | G2 |
A swarm of thin rial shapes appears | J |
And flutt ring round his temples deafs his ears | J |
These he consults the future fates to know | H2 |
From pow rs above and from the fiends below | H2 |
Here for the gods advice Latinus flies | N |
Off ring a hundred sheep for sacrifice | I2 |
Their woolly fleeces as the rites requir d | E |
He laid beneath him and to rest retir d | E |
No sooner were his eyes in slumber bound | E |
When from above a more than mortal sound | E |
Invades his ears and thus the vision spoke | E2 |
Seek not my seed in Latian bands to yoke | E2 |
Our fair Lavinia nor the gods provoke | E2 |
A foreign son upon thy shore descends | J2 |
Whose martial fame from pole to pole extends | J2 |
His race in arms and arts of peace renown d | E |
Not Latium shall contain nor Europe bound | E |
T is theirs whate er the sun surveys around | E |
These answers in the silent night receiv d | E |
The king himself divulg d the land believ d | E |
The fame thro all the neighb ring nations flew | W |
When now the Trojan navy was in view | W |
Beneath a shady tree the hero spread | E |
His table on the turf with cakes of bread | E |
And with his chiefs on forest fruits he fed | E |
They sate and not without the god s command | E |
Their homely fare dispatch d the hungry band | E |
Invade their trenchers next and soon devour | L |
To mend the scanty meal their cakes of flour | L |
Ascanius this observ d and smiling said | E |
See we devour the plates on which we fed | E |
The speech had omen that the Trojan race | K2 |
Should find repose and this the time and place | K2 |
neas took the word and thus replies | N |
Confessing fate with wonder in his eyes | N |
All hail O earth all hail my household gods | L2 |
Behold the destin d place of your abodes | L2 |
For thus Anchises prophesied of old | E |
And this our fatal place of rest foretold | E |
When on a foreign shore instead of meat | E |
By famine forc d your trenchers you shall eat | E |
Then ease your weary Trojans will attend | E |
And the | M2 |
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