Odes Of Anacreon - Ode Lv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLMM DDNNKKMMOKEE PPKKQQRRGGSSTTUUVVKK WWXXWWQQII| A | |
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| While we invoke the wreathed spring | B |
| Resplendent rose to thee we'll sing | B |
| Resplendent rose the flower of flowers | C |
| Whose breath perfumes the Olympian bowers | C |
| Whose virgin blush of chastened dye | D |
| Enchants so much our mortal eye | D |
| When pleasure's spring tide season glows | E |
| The Graces love to wreathe the rose | E |
| And Venus in its fresh blown leaves | F |
| An emblem of herself perceives | F |
| Oft hath the poet's magic tongue | G |
| The rose's fair luxuriance sung | G |
| And long the Muses heavenly maids | H |
| Have reared it in their tuneful shades | H |
| When at the early glance of morn | I |
| It sleeps upon the glittering thorn | I |
| 'Tis sweet to dare the tangled fence | J |
| To cull the timid floweret thence | J |
| And wipe with tender hand away | K |
| The tear that on its blushes lay | K |
| 'Tis sweet to hold the infant stems | L |
| Yet dropping with Aurora's gems | L |
| And fresh inhale the spicy sighs | M |
| That from the weeping buds arise | M |
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| When revel reigns when mirth is high | D |
| And Bacchus beams in every eye | D |
| Our rosy fillets scent exhale | N |
| And fill with balm the fainting gale | N |
| There's naught in nature bright or gay | K |
| Where roses do not shed their ray | K |
| When morning paints the orient skies | M |
| Her fingers burn with roseate dyes | M |
| Young nymphs betray the Rose's hue | O |
| O'er whitest arms it kindles thro' | K |
| In Cytherea's form it glows | E |
| And mingles with the living snows | E |
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| The rose distils a healing balm | P |
| The beating pulse of pain to calm | P |
| Preserves the cold inurn d clay | K |
| And mocks the vestige of decay | K |
| And when at length in pale decline | Q |
| Its florid beauties fade and pine | Q |
| Sweet as in youth its balmy breath | R |
| Diffuses odor even in death | R |
| Oh whence could such a plant have sprung | G |
| Listen for thus the tale is sung | G |
| When humid from the silvery stream | S |
| Effusing beauty's warmest beam | S |
| Venus appeared in flushing hues | T |
| Mellowed by ocean's briny dews | T |
| When in the starry courts above | U |
| The pregnant brain of mighty Jove | U |
| Disclosed the nymph of azure glance | V |
| The nymph who shakes the martial lance | V |
| Then then in strange eventful hour | K |
| The earth produced an infant flower | K |
| Which sprung in blushing glories drest | W |
| And wantoned o'er its parent breast | W |
| The gods beheld this brilliant birth | X |
| And hailed the Rose the boon of earth | X |
| With nectar drops a ruby tide | W |
| The sweetly orient buds they dyed | W |
| And bade them bloom the flowers divine | Q |
| Of him who gave the glorious vine | Q |
| And bade them on the spangled thorn | I |
| Expand their bosoms to the morn | I |
Thomas Moore
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