Exegi monumentum aere perennius
Довольно известное стихотворение Горация ( 65 BC - 8 BC), которому подражали многие, включая А.С.Пушкина с его "Я памятник себе воздвиг нерукотворный" (кажется его проходят в школе?).
Но совершенно непонятно как это читать, чтобы это звучало как стихи с ритмом и смысловыми паузами, а не как металлическое побрякиванье роботов.
Exegi monumentum aere perennius
regalique situ pyramidum altius,
quod non imber edax, non aquilo impotens
possit diruere aut innumerabilis
annorum series et fuga temporum.
non omnis moriar multaque pars mei
vitabit Libitinam; usque ego postera
crescam laude recens, dum Capitolium
scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex.
dicar, qua violens obstrepit Aufidus
et qua pauper aquae Daunus agrestium
regnavit populorum, ex humili potens,
princeps Aeolium carmen ad Italos
deduxisse modos. sume superbiam
quaesitam meritis et mihi Delphica
lauro cinge volens, Melpomene, comam
P.S. (a) "Rhyme is a Medieval invention which only arose with the shift to stress-based prosody rather than the quantity-based prosody of Classical Latin (and Greek). The authors of those ecclesiastical rhymes would have natively spoken a language where vowel quantity was not distinctive, so quantitative meter made no sense to them. For the Romans, stress was unimportant compared with quantity, so rhyme would not have made sense. (I'm not even sure it's true that "obviously, rhyme existed at this time", as a recognized effect."
(b)"Romans at that time did not employ rhymes in their poetry. Rhyming in Latin is simply too easy, given the high flexibility of word order, so the poets used something a little more challenging to show off their skill. What defined the poetry for them was meter. Dactylic hexameter was one of the most common, and was the defining meter of epic poems. To the best of my knowledge, this practice continued through the end of the empire, and rhyming did not come into practice until the Catholic Church became pretty much the only place to hear Latin in use."