Translation From Horace, Book Ii. Ode X., Beginning “rectius Vives, Licini,” &c. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCB DED EFG FHF IJJ| You better sure shall live not evermore | A |
| Trying high seas nor while sea's rage you flee | B |
| Pressing too much upon ill harboured shore | A |
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| The golden mean who loves lives safely free | B |
| From filth of foreworn house and quiet lives | C |
| Released from court where envy needs must be | B |
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| The wind most oft the hugest pine tree grieves | D |
| The stately towers come down with greater fall | E |
| The highest hills the bolt of thunder cleaves | D |
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| Evil haps do fill with hope good haps appall | E |
| With fear of change the courage well prepared | F |
| Foul winters as they come away they shall | G |
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| Though present times and past with evils be snared | F |
| They shall not last with cithern silent Muse | H |
| Apollo wakes and bow hath sometime spared | F |
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| In hard estate with stout shows valour use | I |
| The same man still in whom wisdom prevails | J |
| In too full wind draw in thy swelling sails | J |
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