Eclogue Viii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BAAACDEAFGHIJKLMNAOA PQ RSJTUTTAAATOAVTWXAYA ZAATBTA2AB2TC2D2TE2A AF2ATATC2BMTANAG2OAT NATH2I2TN ABT ATGOC2TJ2K2RL2J2TK2T OC2TK2AC2OK2C2AOAM2C 2K2C2TM2K2AOK2N2MTTK 2O2TP2AAM2K2Q2R2OC2M K2AS2M2C2T2OTATO POLLIO DAMON ALPHESIBOEUS | A |
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Of Damon and Alphesiboeus now | B |
Those shepherd singers at whose rival strains | A |
The heifer wondering forgot to graze | A |
The lynx stood awe struck and the flowing streams | A |
Unwonted loiterers stayed their course to hear | C |
How Damon and Alphesiboeus sang | D |
Their pastoral ditties will I tell the tale | E |
Thou whether broad Timavus' rocky banks | A |
Thou now art passing or dost skirt the shore | F |
Of the Illyrian main will ever dawn | G |
That day when I thy deeds may celebrate | H |
Ever that day when through the whole wide world | I |
I may renown thy verse that verse alone | J |
Of Sophoclean buskin worthy found | K |
With thee began to thee shall end the strain | L |
Take thou these songs that owe their birth to thee | M |
And deign around thy temples to let creep | N |
This ivy chaplet 'twixt the conquering bays | A |
Scarce had night's chilly shade forsook the sky | O |
What time to nibbling sheep the dewy grass | A |
Tastes sweetest when on his smooth shepherd staff | P |
Of olive leaning Damon thus began | Q |
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Damon | R |
'Rise Lucifer and heralding the light | S |
Bring in the genial day while I make moan | J |
Fooled by vain passion for a faithless bride | T |
For Nysa and with this my dying breath | U |
Call on the gods though little it bestead | T |
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not | T |
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays | A |
Ever hath Maenalus his murmuring groves | A |
And whispering pines and ever hears the songs | A |
Of love lorn shepherds and of Pan who first | T |
Brooked not the tuneful reed should idle lie | O |
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays | A |
Nysa to Mopsus given what may not then | V |
We lovers look for soon shall we see mate | T |
Griffins with mares and in the coming age | W |
Shy deer and hounds together come to drink | X |
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays | A |
Now Mopsus cut new torches for they bring | Y |
Your bride along now bridegroom scatter nuts | A |
Forsaking Oeta mounts the evening star | Z |
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays | A |
O worthy of thy mate while all men else | A |
Thou scornest and with loathing dost behold | T |
My shepherd's pipe my goats my shaggy brow | B |
And untrimmed beard nor deem'st that any god | T |
For mortal doings hath regard or care | A2 |
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays | A |
Once with your mother in our orchard garth | B2 |
A little maid I saw you I your guide | T |
Plucking the dewy apples My twelfth year | C2 |
I scarce had entered and could barely reach | D2 |
The brittle boughs I looked and I was lost | T |
A sudden frenzy swept my wits away | E2 |
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays | A |
Now know I what Love is 'mid savage rocks | A |
Tmaros or Rhodope brought forth the boy | F2 |
Or Garamantes in earth's utmost bounds | A |
No kin of ours nor of our blood begot | T |
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays | A |
Fierce Love it was once steeled a mother's heart | T |
With her own offspring's blood her hands to imbrue | C2 |
Mother thou too wert cruel say wert thou | B |
More cruel mother or more ruthless he | M |
Ruthless the boy thou mother cruel too | T |
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays | A |
Now let the wolf turn tail and fly the sheep | N |
Tough oaks bear golden apples alder trees | A |
Bloom with narcissus flower the tamarisk | G2 |
Sweat with rich amber and the screech owl vie | O |
In singing with the swan let Tityrus | A |
Be Orpheus Orpheus in the forest glade | T |
Arion 'mid his dolphins on the deep | N |
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays | A |
Yea be the whole earth to mid ocean turned | T |
Farewell ye woodlands I from the tall peak | H2 |
Of yon aerial rock will headlong plunge | I2 |
Into the billows this my latest gift | T |
From dying lips bequeathed thee see thou keep | N |
Cease now my flute now cease Maenalian lays ' | - |
Thus Damon but do ye Pierian Maids | A |
We cannot all do all things tell me how | B |
Alphesiboeus to his strain replied | T |
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Alphesiboeus | A |
'Bring water and with soft wool fillet bind | T |
These altars round about and burn thereon | G |
Rich vervain and male frankincense that I | O |
May strive with magic spells to turn astray | C2 |
My lover's saner senses whereunto | T |
There lacketh nothing save the power of song | J2 |
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home | K2 |
Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven | R |
Circe with singing changed from human form | L2 |
The comrades of Ulysses and by song | J2 |
Is the cold meadow snake asunder burst | T |
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home | K2 |
These triple threads of threefold colour first | T |
I twine about thee and three times withal | O |
Around these altars do thine image bear | C2 |
Uneven numbers are the god's delight | T |
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home | K2 |
Now Amaryllis ply in triple knots | A |
The threefold colours ply them fast and say | C2 |
This is the chain of Venus that I ply | O |
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home | K2 |
As by the kindling of the self same fire | C2 |
Harder this clay this wax the softer grows | A |
So by my love may Daphnis sprinkle meal | O |
And with bitumen burn the brittle bays | A |
Me Daphnis with his cruelty doth burn | M2 |
I to melt cruel Daphnis burn this bay | C2 |
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home | K2 |
As when some heifer seeking for her steer | C2 |
Through woodland and deep grove sinks wearied out | T |
On the green sedge beside a stream love lorn | M2 |
Nor marks the gathering night that calls her home | K2 |
As pines that heifer with such love as hers | A |
May Daphnis pine and I not care to heal | O |
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home | K2 |
These relics once dear pledges of himself | N2 |
The traitor left me which O earth to thee | M |
Here on this very threshold I commit | T |
Pledges that bind him to redeem the debt | T |
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home | K2 |
These herbs of bane to me did Moeris give | O2 |
In Pontus culled where baneful herbs abound | T |
With these full oft have I seen Moeris change | P2 |
To a wolf's form and hide him in the woods | A |
Oft summon spirits from the tomb's recess | A |
And to new fields transport the standing corn | M2 |
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home | K2 |
Take ashes Amaryllis fetch them forth | Q2 |
And o'er your head into the running brook | R2 |
Fling them nor look behind with these will | O |
Upon the heart of Daphnis make essay | C2 |
Nothing for gods nothing for songs cares he | M |
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home | K2 |
Look look I the very embers of themselves | A |
Have caught the altar with a flickering flame | S2 |
While I delay to fetch them may the sign | M2 |
Prove lucky something it must mean for sure | C2 |
And Hylax on the threshold 'gins to bark | T2 |
May we believe it or are lovers still | O |
By their own fancies fooled | T |
Give o'er my songs | A |
Daphnis is coming from the town give o'er ' | - |
Virgil
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