An Echo From Horace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEE CECFDD GCGCHH IJKJLL MNONPP| Lusisti est et edisti atque bibisti Tempus abire tibi est | A |
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| Take away the dancing girls quench the lights remove | B |
| Golden cups and garlands sere all the feast away | C |
| Lutes and lyres and Lalage close the gates above | D |
| Write upon the lintel this Time is done for play | C |
| Thou hast had thy fill of love eaten drunk the show | E |
| Ends at last 'twas long enough time it is to go | E |
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| Thou hast played ah heart how long past all count were they | C |
| Girls of gold and ivory bosomed deep all snow | E |
| Leopard swift and velvet loined bronze for hair wild clay | C |
| Turning at a touch to flame tense as a strung bow | F |
| Cruel as the circling hawk tame at last as dove | D |
| Thou hast had thy fill and more than enough of love | D |
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| Thou hast eaten peacock's tongues fed thy carp with slaves | G |
| Nests of Asiatic birds brought from far Cathay | C |
| Umbrian boars and mullet roes snatched from stormy waves | G |
| Half thy father's lands have gone one strange meal to pay | C |
| For a morsel on thy plate ravished sea and shore | H |
| Thou hast eaten 'tis enough thou shalt eat no more | H |
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| Thou hast drunk how hast thou drunk mighty vats whole seas | I |
| Vineyards purpling half a world turned to gold thy throat | J |
| Falernian true Massic the gods' own vintages | K |
| Lakes thou hast swallowed deep enough galleys tall to float | J |
| Wildness wonder wisdom all drunkenness divine | L |
| All that dreams within the grape madness too were thine | L |
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| Time it is to go and sleep draw the curtains close | M |
| Tender strings shall lull thee still mellow flutes be blown | N |
| Still the spring shall shower down on thy couch the rose | O |
| Still the laurels crown thine head where thou dreamest alone | N |
| Thou didst play and thou didst eat thou hast drunken deep | P |
| Time at last it is to go time it is to sleep | P |
Richard Le Gallienne
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