The Love Of Thyonichus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA AB AC AD AA AAEAFGH AIJK ALMD ANNOPBNQRNASCTGANUNA VNWXPQIPXAANANNNNABY ZAAHA2NPB2ANA AANC AA AC2CSANAND2NE2F2ZG2H 2| AESCHINES | A |
| Hail sir Thyonichus | A |
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| THYONICHUS | A |
| schines to you | B |
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| AESCHINES | A |
| I have missed thee | C |
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| THYONICHUS | A |
| Missed me Why what ails him now | D |
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| AESCHINES | A |
| My friend I am ill at ease | A |
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| THYONICHUS | A |
| Then this explains | A |
| Thy leanness and thy prodigal moustache | E |
| And dried up curls Thy counterpart I saw | A |
| A wan Pythagorean yesterday | F |
| He said he came from Athens shoes he had none | G |
| He pined I'll warrant for a quartern loaf | H |
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| AESCHINES | A |
| Sir you will joke But I've been outraged sore | I |
| And by Cynisca I shall go stark mad | J |
| Ere you suspect a hair would turn the scale | K |
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| THYONICHUS | A |
| Such thou wert always schines my friend | L |
| In lazy mood or trenchant at thy whim | M |
| The world must wag But what's thy grievance now | D |
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| AESCHINES | A |
| That Argive Apis the Thessalian Knight | N |
| Myself and gallant Cleonicus supped | N |
| Within my grounds Two pullets I had slain | O |
| And a prime pig and broached my Biblian wine | P |
| 'Twas four years old but fragrant as when new | B |
| Truffles were served to us and the drink was good | N |
| Well we got on and each must drain a cup | Q |
| To whom he fancied only each must name | R |
| We named and took our liquor as ordained | N |
| But she sate silent this before my face | A |
| Fancy my feelings 'Wilt not speak Hast seen | S |
| A wolf ' some wag said 'Shrewdly guessed ' quoth she | C |
| And blushed her blushes might have fired a torch | T |
| A wolf had charmed her Wolf her neighbour's son | G |
| Goodly and tall and fair in divers eyes | A |
| For his illustrious sake it was she pined | N |
| This had been breathed just idly in my ear | U |
| Shame on my beard I ne'er pursued the hint | N |
| Well when we four were deep amid our cups | A |
| The Knight must sing 'The Wolf' a local song | V |
| Right through for mischief All at once she wept | N |
| Hot tears as girls of six years old might weep | W |
| Clinging and clamouring round their mother's lap | X |
| And I you know my humour friend of mine | P |
| Drove at his face one two She gathered up | Q |
| Her robes and vanished straightway through the door | I |
| 'And so I fail to please false lady mine | P |
| Another lies more welcome in thy lap | X |
| Go warm that other's heart he'll say thy tears | A |
| Are liquid pearls ' And as a swallow flies | A |
| Forth in a hurry here or there to find | N |
| A mouthful for her brood among the eaves | A |
| From her soft sofa passing swift she fled | N |
| Through folding doors and hall with random feet | N |
| 'The stag had gained his heath' you know the rest | N |
| Three weeks a month nine days and ten to that | N |
| To day's the eleventh and 'tis just two months | A |
| All but two days since she and I were two | B |
| Hence is my beard of more than Thracian growth | Y |
| Now Wolf is all to her Wolf enters in | Z |
| At midnight I am a cypher in her eyes | A |
| The poor Megarian nowhere in the race | A |
| All would go right if I could once unlove | H |
| But now you wot the rat hath tasted tar | A2 |
| And what may cure a swain at his wit's end | N |
| I know not Simus true a mate of mine | P |
| Loved Epichalcus' daughter and took ship | B2 |
| And came home cured I too will sail the seas | A |
| Worse men it may be better are afloat | N |
| I shall still prove an average man at arms | A |
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| THYONICHUS | A |
| Now may thy love run smoothly schines | A |
| But should'st thou really mean a voyage out | N |
| The freeman's best paymaster's Ptolemy | C |
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| AESCHINES | A |
| What is he else | A |
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| THYONICHUS | A |
| A gentleman a man | C2 |
| Of wit and taste the top of company | C |
| Loyal to ladies one whose eye is keen | S |
| For friends and keener still for enemies | A |
| Large in his bounties he in kingly sort | N |
| Denies a boon to none but schines | A |
| One should not ask too often This premised | N |
| If thou wilt clasp the military cloak | D2 |
| O'er thy right shoulder and with legs astride | N |
| Await the onward rush of shielded men | E2 |
| Hie thee to Egypt Age overtakes us all | F2 |
| Our temples first then on o'er cheek and chin | Z |
| Slowly and surely creep the frosts of Time | G2 |
| Up and do somewhat ere thy limbs are sere | H2 |
Theocritus
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