impius haec tam culta noualia miles habebit, 70
barbarus has segetes. en quo discordia ciuis
produxit miseros: his nos conseuimus agros!
insere nunc, Meliboee, piros, pone ordine uitis.
ite meae, felix quondam pecus, ite capellae.
non ego uos posthac uiridi proiectus in antro 75
dumosa pendere procul de rupe uidebo;
carmina nulla canam; non me pascente, capellae,
florentem cytisum et salices carpetis amaras.
T. Hic tamen hanc mecum poteras requiescere noctem
fronde super uiridi: sunt nobis mitia poma, 80
castaneae molles et pressi copia lactis,
et iam summa procul uillarum culmina fumant
maioresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.

Match subject to verb to object:
  1. ego
  2. miles
  3. nos
  4. barbarus
  5. discordia
  6. (ego)
  7. (vos), capellae
  1. consevimus
  2. habebit
  3. canam
  4. videbo
  5. carpetis
  6. produxit
  1. florentem cytisum et salices amaras
  2. haec tam culta novalia
  3. carmina nulla
  4. has segetes
  5. miseros civis
  6. agros
  7. vos

Is the 3rd foot of each line a dactyl or a spondee:

  1. 70
  2. 71
  3. 72
  4. 73
  5. 74
  6. 75
  7. 76
  8. 77
  9. 78
  10. 79
  11. 80
  12. 81
  13. 82
  14. 83
Answer in English:
  1. What societal issues poke their head into this poem? Does the poem take any stances on them?
  2. Given that Virgil and Augustus and Maecenas and Horace, etc. were not shepherds and hadn't really lived the life of a fieldhand at all, but these poems were acclaimed as excellent practically from the moment of publication, what do you imagine this poem could be about, for them, or any Roman reader of the time, really?

Ancient Comment (from Maurus Servius Honoratus' Commentary on the Poems of Virgil.