Idyll Xii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH IIJJKKLLCCJJMN OOLLOOL LLLPPQL| Art come dear youth two days and nights away | A |
| Who burn with love grow aged in a day | A |
| As much as apples sweet the damson crude | B |
| Excel the blooming spring the winter rude | B |
| In fleece the sheep her lamb the maiden in sweetness | C |
| The thrice wed dame the fawn the calf in fleetness | C |
| The nightingale in song all feathered kind | D |
| So much thy longed for presence cheers my mind | D |
| To thee I hasten as to shady beech | E |
| The traveller when from the heaven's reach | E |
| The sun fierce blazes May our love be strong | F |
| To all hereafter times the theme of song | F |
| 'Two men each other loved to that degree | G |
| That either friend did in the other see | G |
| A dearer than himself They loved of old | H |
| Both golden natures in an age of gold | H |
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| O father Zeus ageless immortals all | I |
| Two hundred ages hence may one recall | I |
| Down coming to the irremeable river | J |
| This to my mind and this good news deliver | J |
| 'E'en now from east to west from north to south | K |
| Your mutual friendship lives in every mouth' | K |
| This as they please th' Olympians will decide | L |
| Of thee by blooming virtue beautified | L |
| My glowing song shall only truth disclose | C |
| With falsehood's pustules I'll not shame my nose | C |
| If thou dost sometime grieve me sweet the pleasure | J |
| Of reconcilement joy in double measure | J |
| To find thou never didst intend the pain | M |
| And feel myself from all doubt free again | N |
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| And ye Megarians at Nesaea dwelling | O |
| Expert at rowing mariners excelling | O |
| Be happy ever for with honors due | L |
| Th' Athenian Diocles to friendship true | L |
| Ye celebrate With the first blush of spring | O |
| The youth surround his tomb there who shall bring | O |
| The sweetest kiss whose lip is Purest found | L |
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| Back to his mother goes with garlands crowned | L |
| Nice touch the arbiter must have indeed | L |
| And must methinks the blue eyed Ganymede | L |
| Invoke with many prayers a mouth to own | P |
| True to the touch of lips as Lydian stone | P |
| To proof of gold which test will instant show | Q |
| The pure or base as money changers know quot | L |
Theocritus
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