Pyrrha- Horace, Latin GCSE set text

Horace Writes this poem in Stanzas

The metre is Asclepiads
The position of words in the first line is significant. The words slender boy is wrapped around the word Pyrrha they are both surrounded by the words many roses. THIS IS DONE PURPOSEFULLY
Simple in your elegance is an oxymoron... Horace is flattering a girl he has finished with.
Love is explained as storms with rough seas and dark winds, this is a form of metonymy and continues in stanza (verse) 4 when he talks of wet garments.
aspera..aequora are assonance connected with emirabiter: he will gape.
The wording of stanza 4 is very muddled and mixed up.. so was Horace in love
Repitition of Qui/Qui and semper/semper.
Choice of aurea and aurae in the same stanza but with different meanings- gold/breeze
Juxtaposition
Hanging up his wet clothes is like our expression... throwing in the towel.

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