Horace: Book 1, Ode 22 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFH IJKJ LMLM NONO| The man my friend whose conscious heart | A |
| With virtue's sacred ardour glows | B |
| Nor taints with death the envenom'd dart | A |
| Nor needs the guard of Moorish bows | C |
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| Though Scythia's icy cliffs he treads | D |
| Or horrid Afric's faithless sands | E |
| Or where the fam'd Hydaspes spreads | D |
| His liquid wealth o'er barbarous lands | E |
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| For while by Chloe's image charm'd | F |
| Too far in Sabine woods I stray'd | G |
| Me singing careless and unarm'd | F |
| A grisly wolf surprised and fled | H |
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| No savage more portentous stain'd | I |
| Apulia's spacious wilds with gore | J |
| None fiercer Juba's thirsty land | K |
| Dire nurse of raging lions bore | J |
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| Place me where no soft summer gale | L |
| Among the quivering branches sighs | M |
| Where clouds condensed for ever veil | L |
| With horrid gloom the frowning skies | M |
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| Place me beneath the burning line | N |
| A clime denied to human race | O |
| I'll sing of Cloe's charms divine | N |
| Her heavenly voice and beauteous face | O |
Samuel Johnson
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