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=== Book IV ===
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== Index of First Lines ==
=== Index of First Lines ===
 
 
 
Venus now you’ve returned again. 5
 
Iulus, whoever tries to rival Pindar,7
 
Melpomene, Muse, one whom you. 9
 
Like the winged agent of the bright lightning-bolt,10
 
Son of the blessed gods, and greatest defender13
 
God, whom Niobe’s children encountered, O.. 15
 
The snow has vanished, already the grass returns to the fields,17
 
I’d give bowls, generously, and pleasing bronzes,18
 
Don’t think that the words I speak to accompany. 19
 
O you who are cruel still, and a master of Venus’s gifts,21
 
I’ve a jar of Alban wine over nine years. 22
 
Now Spring’s companions, the Thracian northerlies,24
 
Lyce, the gods have heard my prayers, the gods have. 25
 
What care the Citizens and the Senators. 26
 
Phoebus condemned my verse, when I tried to sing. 28
 
 
 
== Metres Used in Book IV. ==
 
 
 
The number of syllables most commonly employed in each standard line of the verse is given. This may vary slightly for effect (two beats substituted for three etc.) in a given line.
 
 
Alcaic Strophe: 11 (5+6) twice, 9, 10   
 
used in Odes: 4,9,14,15
 
 
Sapphic and Adonic: 11(5+6) three times, 5
 
Odes: 2,6,11
 
 
First Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) all lines
 
Ode: 8
 
 
Second Asclepiadean: 8, 12 (6+6), alternating
 
Odes: 1,3
 
 
Third Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) three times, 8
 
Odes 5,12
 
 
Fourth Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) twice, 7, 8
 
Ode:13
 
 
Fifth Asclepiadean: 16 (6+4+6) all lines
 
Ode: 10
 
 
Alcmanic Strophe: 17 (7+10) or less, 11 or less, alternating
 
Odes: None in Book IV
 
 
First Archilochian: 17 (7+10) or less, 7 alternating


Ode: 7




Fourth Archilochian Strophe: 18 (7+11) or less, 11 (5+6) alternating
=== Metres Used in Book IV. ===


Odes: None in Book IV


Second Sapphic Strophe: 7, 15 (5+10) alternating
Odes: None in Book IV
Trochaic Strophe: 7,11 alternating
Odes: None in Book IV
Ionic a Minore: 16 twice, 8
Ode: None in Book IV
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Latest revision as of 20:46, 26 January 2013

Book III The Odes
Book IV
written by Horace



Book IV

  1. Venus, be Merciful
  2. Augustus’s Return
  3. To The Muse
  4. Drusus and the Claudians
  5. To Augustus
  6. To Apollo
  7. Diffugere Nives
  8. Poetry
  9. Lollius
  10. Age
  11. Maecenas’ Birthday
  12. Spring
  13. You too, Lyce
  14. Drusus and Tiberius
  15. To Augustus



Index of First Lines

Metres Used in Book IV.

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