Quinti Catuli. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDECDB D DDBDFFDDQUINTI CATULI | A |
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Constiteram exorientem Auroram forte salutans | B |
Cum subito a laeva Roscius exoritur | C |
Pace mihi liceat coelestes dicere vestra | C |
Mortalis visu pulchrior esse deo | D |
Blanditur puero satyrus vultuque manuque | E |
Nolenti similis retrahit ora puer | C |
Quem non commoveat quamvis de marmore fundit | D |
Pene preces satyrus pene puer lachrymas | B |
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ENGLISHED | D |
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As once I bad good morning to the day | D |
O' th' sudden Roscius breaks in a bright ray | D |
Gods with your favour I've presum'd to see | B |
A mortal fairer then a deitie | D |
With looks and hands a satyre courts the boy | F |
Who draws back his unwilling cheek as coy | F |
Although of marble hewn whom move not they | D |
The boy ev'n seems to weep the satyre pray | D |
Richard Lovelace
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