Pastor Cum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFGFGHIHJKLKL MNMNOEOEAPAPQRSR| When he that shepherd false 'neath Phrygian sail | A |
| Carried his hostess Helen o'er the seas | B |
| In fitful slumber Nereus hush'd the gales | C |
| That he might sing their future destinies | B |
| A curse to your ancestral home you take | D |
| With her whom Greece with many a soldier bold | E |
| Shall seek again in concert sworn to break | D |
| Your nuptial ties and Priam's kingdom old | E |
| Alas what sweat from man and horse must flow | F |
| What devastation to the Trojan realm | G |
| You carry even now doth Pallas show | F |
| Her wrath preparing buckler car and helm | G |
| In vain secure in Aphrodite's care | H |
| You comb your locks and on the girlish lyre | I |
| Select the strains most pleasant to the fair | H |
| In vain on couch reclining you desire | J |
| To shun the darts that threaten and the thrust | K |
| Of Cretan lance the battle's wild turmoil | L |
| And Ajax swift to follow in the dust | K |
| Condemned though late your wanton curls to soil | L |
| Ah see you not where fatal to your race | M |
| Laertes' son comes with the Pylean sage | N |
| Fearless alike with Teucer joins the chase | M |
| Stenel us skill'd the fistic strife to wage | N |
| Nor less expert the fiery steeds to quell | O |
| And Meriones you must know Behold | E |
| A warrior than his sire more fierce and fell | O |
| To find you rages Diomed the bold | E |
| Whom like the stag that far across the vale | A |
| The wolf being seen no herbage can allure | P |
| So fly you panting sorely dastard pale | A |
| Not thus you boasted to your paramour | P |
| Achilles' anger for a space defers | Q |
| The day of wrath to Troy and Trojan dame | R |
| Inevitable glide the allotted years | S |
| And Dardan roofs must waste in Argive flame | R |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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