Fragments - Lines 1327 - 1334 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH| My boy as long as your cheeks and chin are smooth I shall never | A |
| Cease to praise you not even if I am fated to die | B |
| For you the giver it is still honorable and for me as lover it is not shameful | C |
| To ask But I beseech you in the name of my parents | D |
| Show me respect my boy and grant me favor If in time to come | E |
| Craving in your turn the gift of the violet crowned | F |
| Cyprian you shall approach another then may the gods | G |
| Grant that you meet with just such words as I hear now | H |
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