The Portent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE EFEG HIHI JEJE| Horace BK V Ode | A |
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| Oh late withdrawn from human kind | B |
| And following dreams we never knew | C |
| Varus what dream has Fate assigned | B |
| To trouble you | C |
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| Such virtue as commends of law | D |
| Of Virtue to the vulgar horde | E |
| Suffices not You needs must draw | D |
| A righteous sword | E |
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| And flagrant in well doing smite | E |
| The priests of Bacchus at their fane | F |
| Lest any worshipper invite | E |
| The God again | G |
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| Whence public strife and naked crime | H |
| And deadlier than the cup you shun | I |
| A people schooled to mock in time | H |
| All law not one | I |
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| Cease then to fashion State made sin | J |
| Nor give thy children cause to doubt | E |
| That Virtue springs from Iron within | J |
| Not lead without | E |
Rudyard Kipling
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