Eclogue Vi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEAFGAHIAJAKLAMKNO PQRSTUAIVWAVXYZRA2SA SB2VXC2FAD2AAE2F2TG2 WG2H2I2WCWAJ2K2RAA2A L2A2AAAASM2ASN2AO2AP 2JWA2Q2SA2B2R2AS2L2S JT2FH2U2V2B2AE2P2W2S X2WU2TO VARUS | A |
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First my Thalia stooped in sportive mood | B |
To Syracusan strains nor blushed within | C |
The woods to house her When I sought to tell | D |
Of battles and of kings the Cynthian god | E |
Plucked at mine ear and warned me 'Tityrus | A |
Beseems a shepherd wight to feed fat sheep | F |
But sing a slender song ' Now Varus I | G |
For lack there will not who would laud thy deeds | A |
And treat of dolorous wars will rather tune | H |
To the slim oaten reed my silvan lay | I |
I sing but as vouchsafed me yet even this | A |
If if but one with ravished eyes should read | J |
Of thee O Varus shall our tamarisks | A |
And all the woodland ring nor can there be | K |
A page more dear to Phoebus than the page | L |
Where foremost writ the name of Varus stands | A |
Speed ye Pierian Maids Within a cave | M |
Young Chromis and Mnasyllos chanced to see | K |
Silenus sleeping flushed as was his wont | N |
With wine of yesterday Not far aloof | O |
Slipped from his head the garlands lay and there | P |
By its worn handle hung a ponderous cup | Q |
Approaching for the old man many a time | R |
Had balked them both of a long hoped for song | S |
Garlands to fetters turned they bind him fast | T |
Then Aegle fairest of the Naiad band | U |
Aegle came up to the half frightened boys | A |
Came and as now with open eyes he lay | I |
With juice of blood red mulberries smeared him o'er | V |
Both brow and temples Laughing at their guile | W |
And crying 'Why tie the fetters loose me boys | A |
Enough for you to think you had the power | V |
Now list the songs you wish for songs for you | X |
Another meed for her' forthwith began | Y |
Then might you see the wild things of the wood | Z |
With Fauns in sportive frolic beat the time | R |
And stubborn oaks their branchy summits bow | A2 |
Not Phoebus doth the rude Parnassian crag | S |
So ravish nor Orpheus so entrance the heights | A |
Of Rhodope or Ismarus for he sang | S |
How through the mighty void the seeds were driven | B2 |
Of earth air ocean and of liquid fire | V |
How all that is from these beginnings grew | X |
And the young world itself took solid shape | C2 |
Then 'gan its crust to harden and in the deep | F |
Shut Nereus off and mould the forms of things | A |
Little by little and how the earth amazed | D2 |
Beheld the new sun shining and the showers | A |
Fall as the clouds soared higher what time the woods | A |
'Gan first to rise and living things to roam | E2 |
Scattered among the hills that knew them not | F2 |
Then sang he of the stones by Pyrrha cast | T |
Of Saturn's reign and of Prometheus' theft | G2 |
And the Caucasian birds and told withal | W |
Nigh to what fountain by his comrades left | G2 |
The mariners cried on Hylas till the shore | H2 |
'Then Re echoed 'Hylas Hylas soothed | I2 |
Pasiphae with the love of her white bull | W |
Happy if cattle kind had never been | C |
O ill starred maid what frenzy caught thy soul | W |
The daughters too of Proetus filled the fields | A |
With their feigned lowings yet no one of them | J2 |
Of such unhallowed union e'er was fain | K2 |
As with a beast to mate though many a time | R |
On her smooth forehead she had sought for horns | A |
And for her neck had feared the galling plough | A2 |
O ill starred maid thou roamest now the hills | A |
While on soft hyacinths he his snowy side | L2 |
Reposing under some dark ilex now | A2 |
Chews the pale herbage or some heifer tracks | A |
Amid the crowding herd Now close ye Nymphs | A |
Ye Nymphs of Dicte close the forest glades | A |
If haply there may chance upon mine eyes | A |
The white bull's wandering foot prints him belike | S |
Following the herd or by green pasture lured | M2 |
Some kine may guide to the Gortynian stalls | A |
Then sings he of the maid so wonder struck | S |
With the apples of the Hesperids and then | N2 |
With moss bound bitter bark rings round the forms | A |
Of Phaethon's fair sisters from the ground | O2 |
Up towering into poplars Next he sings | A |
Of Gallus wandering by Permessus' stream | P2 |
And by a sister of the Muses led | J |
To the Aonian mountains and how all | W |
The choir of Phoebus rose to greet him how | A2 |
The shepherd Linus singer of songs divine | Q2 |
Brow bound with flowers and bitter parsley spake | S |
'These reeds the Muses give thee take them thou | A2 |
Erst to the aged bard of Ascra given | B2 |
Wherewith in singing he was wont to draw | R2 |
Time rooted ash trees from the mountain heights | A |
With these the birth of the Grynean grove | S2 |
Be voiced by thee that of no grove beside | L2 |
Apollo more may boast him ' Wherefore speak | S |
Of Scylla child of Nisus who 'tis said | J |
Her fair white loins with barking monsters girt | T2 |
Vexed the Dulichian ships and in the deep | F |
Swift eddying whirlpool with her sea dogs tore | H2 |
The trembling mariners or how he told | U2 |
Of the changed limbs of Tereus what a feast | V2 |
What gifts to him by Philomel were given | B2 |
How swift she sought the desert with what wings | A |
Hovered in anguish o'er her ancient home | E2 |
All that of old Eurotas happy stream | P2 |
Heard as Apollo mused upon the lyre | W2 |
And bade his laurels learn Silenus sang | S |
Till from Olympus loth at his approach | X2 |
Vesper advancing bade the shepherds tell | W |
Their tale of sheep and pen them in the fold | U2 |
Virgil
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