Horace: Book Iv. Ode 7 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFBCGGHHIIJJ KLMMBBHH| The snow dissolv'd no more is seen | A |
| The fields and woods behold are green | A |
| The changing year renews the plain | B |
| The rivers know their banks again | C |
| The sprightly nymph and naked grace | D |
| The mazy dance together trace | D |
| The changing year's successive plan | E |
| Proclaims mortality to man | E |
| Rough winter's blasts to spring give way | F |
| Spring yields to summer's sovereign ray | F |
| Then summer sinks in autumn's reign | B |
| And winter chills the world again | C |
| Her losses soon the moon supplies | G |
| But wretched man when once he lies | G |
| Where Priam and his sons are laid | H |
| Is nought but ashes and a shade | H |
| Who knows if Jove who counts our score | I |
| Will toss us in a morning more | I |
| What with your friend you nobly share | J |
| At least you rescue from your heir | J |
| Not you Torquatus boast of Rome | K |
| When Minos once has fix'd your doom | L |
| Or eloquence or splendid birth | M |
| Or virtue shall restore to earth | M |
| Hippolytus unjustly slain | B |
| Diana calls to life in vain | B |
| Nor can the might of Theseus rend | H |
| The chains of hell that hold his friend | H |
Samuel Johnson
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