Ecologue I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABAACDEF AFGHIAJK ALFMFNFOAFGO APAQFARFA AP ASFFTFUFVWXP AGYAAAF AFFYZF AAFEA2FB2AFC2AD2B2AF E2 AF2FAG2F AH2FI2RFAFF2AAZUFB2G RA2FA AAGURE| MELIBOEUS TITYRUS | A |
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| Meliboeus | A |
| You Tityrus 'neath a broad beech canopy | B |
| Reclining on the slender oat rehearse | A |
| Your silvan ditties I from my sweet fields | A |
| And home's familiar bounds even now depart | C |
| Exiled from home am I while Tityrus you | D |
| Sit careless in the shade and at your call | E |
| 'Fair Amaryllis' bid the woods resound | F |
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| Tityrus | A |
| O Meliboeus 'twas a god vouchsafed | F |
| This ease to us for him a god will I | G |
| Deem ever and from my folds a tender lamb | H |
| Oft with its life blood shall his altar stain | I |
| His gift it is that as your eyes may see | A |
| My kine may roam at large and I myself | J |
| Play on my shepherd's pipe what songs I will | K |
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| Meliboeus | A |
| I grudge you not the boon but marvel more | L |
| Such wide confusion fills the country side | F |
| See sick at heart I drive my she goats on | M |
| And this one O my Tityrus scarce can lead | F |
| For 'mid the hazel thicket here but now | N |
| She dropped her new yeaned twins on the bare flint | F |
| Hope of the flock an ill I mind me well | O |
| Which many a time but for my blinded sense | A |
| The thunder stricken oak foretold oft too | F |
| From hollow trunk the raven's ominous cry | G |
| But who this god of yours Come Tityrus tell | O |
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| Tityrus | A |
| The city Meliboeus they call Rome | P |
| I simpleton deemed like this town of ours | A |
| Whereto we shepherds oft are wont to drive | Q |
| The younglings of the flock so too I knew | F |
| Whelps to resemble dogs and kids their dams | A |
| Comparing small with great but this as far | R |
| Above all other cities rears her head | F |
| As cypress above pliant osier towers | A |
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| Meliboeus | A |
| And what so potent cause took you to Rome | P |
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| Tityrus | A |
| Freedom which though belated cast at length | S |
| Her eyes upon the sluggard when my beard | F |
| 'Gan whiter fall beneath the barber's blade | F |
| Cast eyes I say and though long tarrying came | T |
| Now when from Galatea's yoke released | F |
| I serve but Amaryllis for I will own | U |
| While Galatea reigned over me I had | F |
| No hope of freedom and no thought to save | V |
| Though many a victim from my folds went forth | W |
| Or rich cheese pressed for the unthankful town | X |
| Never with laden hands returned I home | P |
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| Meliboeus | A |
| I used to wonder Amaryllis why | G |
| You cried to heaven so sadly and for whom | Y |
| You left the apples hanging on the trees | A |
| 'Twas Tityrus was away Why Tityrus | A |
| The very pines the very water springs | A |
| The very vineyards cried aloud for you | F |
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| Tityrus | A |
| What could I do how else from bonds be freed | F |
| Or otherwhere find gods so nigh to aid | F |
| There Meliboeus I saw that youth to whom | Y |
| Yearly for twice six days my altars smoke | Z |
| There instant answer gave he to my suit | F |
| 'Feed as before your kine boys rear your bulls ' | - |
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| Meliboeus | A |
| So in old age you happy man your fields | A |
| Will still be yours and ample for your need | F |
| Though with bare stones o'erspread the pastures all | E |
| Be choked with rushy mire your ewes with young | A2 |
| By no strange fodder will be tried nor hurt | F |
| Through taint contagious of a neighbouring flock | B2 |
| Happy old man who 'mid familiar streams | A |
| And hallowed springs will court the cooling shade | F |
| Here as of old your neighbour's bordering hedge | C2 |
| That feasts with willow flower the Hybla bees | A |
| Shall oft with gentle murmur lull to sleep | D2 |
| While the leaf dresser beneath some tall rock | B2 |
| Uplifts his song nor cease their cooings hoarse | A |
| The wood pigeons that are your heart's delight | F |
| Nor doves their moaning in the elm tree top | E2 |
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| Tityrus | A |
| Sooner shall light stags therefore feed in air | F2 |
| The seas their fish leave naked on the strand | F |
| Germans and Parthians shift their natural bounds | A |
| And these the Arar those the Tigris drink | G2 |
| Than from my heart his face and memory fade | F |
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| Meliboeus | A |
| But we far hence to burning Libya some | H2 |
| Some to the Scythian steppes or thy swift flood | F |
| Cretan Oaxes now must wend our way | I2 |
| Or Britain from the whole world sundered far | R |
| Ah shall I ever in aftertime behold | F |
| My native bounds see many a harvest hence | A |
| With ravished eyes the lowly turf roofed cot | F |
| Where I was king These fallows trimmed so fair | F2 |
| Some brutal soldier will possess these fields | A |
| An alien master Ah to what a pass | A |
| Has civil discord brought our hapless folk | Z |
| For such as these then were our furrows sown | U |
| Now Meliboeus graft your pears now set | F |
| Your vines in order Go once happy flock | B2 |
| My she goats go Never again shall I | G |
| Stretched in green cave behold you from afar | R |
| Hang from the bushy rock my songs are sung | A2 |
| Never again will you with me to tend | F |
| On clover flower or bitter willows browse | A |
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| Tityrus | A |
| Yet here this night you might repose with me | A |
| On green leaves pillowed apples ripe have I | G |
| Soft chestnuts and of curdled milk enow | U |
| And see the farm roof chimneys smoke afar | R |
| And from the hills the shadows lengthening fall | E |
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