Odes Of Anacreon - Ode Xvii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJK LM NNFFOOPPQQ RRSSTUVVWWVV BBFFXXQQAADDYYAnd now with all thy pencil's truth | A |
Portray Bathyllus lovely youth | A |
Let his hair in masses bright | B |
Fall like floating rays of light | B |
And there the raven's die confuse | C |
With the golden sunbeam's hues | C |
Let no wreath with artful twine | D |
The flowing of his locks confine | D |
But leave them loose to every breeze | E |
To take what shape and course they please | E |
Beneath the forehead fair as snow | F |
But flushed with manhood's early glow | F |
And guileless as the dews of dawn | G |
Let the majestic brows be drawn | G |
Of ebon hue enriched by gold | H |
Such as dark shining snakes unfold | H |
Mix in his eyes the power alike | I |
With love to win with awe to strike | I |
Borrow from Mars his look of ire | J |
From Venus her soft glance of fire | K |
Blend them in such expression here | L |
That we by turns may hope and fear | M |
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Now from the sunny apple seek | N |
The velvet down that spreads his cheek | N |
And there if art so far can go | F |
The ingenuous blush of boyhood show | F |
While for his mouth but no in vain | O |
Would words its witching charm explain | O |
Make it the very seat the throne | P |
That Eloquence would claim her own | P |
And let the lips though silent wear | Q |
A life look as if words were there | Q |
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Next thou his ivory neck must trace | R |
Moulded with soft but manly grace | R |
Fair as the neck of Paphia's boy | S |
Where Paphia's arms have hung in joy | S |
Give him the wing d Hermes' hand | T |
With which he waves his snaky wand | U |
Let Bacchus the broad chest supply | V |
And Leda's son the sinewy thigh | V |
While through his whole transparent frame | W |
Thou show'st the stirrings of that flame | W |
Which kindles when the first love sigh | V |
Steals from the heart unconscious why | V |
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But sure thy pencil though so bright | B |
Is envious of the eye's delight | B |
Or its enamoured touch would show | F |
The shoulder fair as sunless snow | F |
Which now in veiling shadow lies | X |
Removed from all but Fancy's eyes | X |
Now for his feet but hold forbear | Q |
I see the sun god's portrait there | Q |
Why paint Bathyllus when in truth | A |
There in that god thou'st sketched the youth | A |
Enough let this bright form be mine | D |
And send the boy to Samos' shrine | D |
Phoebus shall then Bathyllus be | Y |
Bathyllus then the deity | Y |
Thomas Moore
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