The Last Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFEF GHGI JKJK| Nov B C Horace BK V Ode | A |
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| As watchers couched beneath a Bantine oak | B |
| Hearing the dawn wind stir | C |
| Know that the present strength of night is broke | B |
| Though no dawn threaten her | C |
| Till dawn's appointed hour so Virgil died | D |
| Aware of change at hand and prophesied | D |
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| Change upon all the Eternal Gods had made | E |
| And on the Gods alike | F |
| Fated as dawn but as the dawn delayed | E |
| Till the just hour should strike | F |
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| A Star new risen above the living and dead | G |
| And the lost shades that were our loves restored | H |
| As lovers and for ever So he said | G |
| Having received the word | I |
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| Maecenas waits me on the Esquiline | J |
| Thither to night go I | K |
| And shall this dawn restore us Virgil mine | J |
| To dawn Beneath what sky | K |
Rudyard Kipling
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