The Defiance Of Eteocles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKFLLMNOPO QRST S SSUVWXYZA2SB2C2D2B2S FFE2F2YG2BH2S| MESSENGER | A |
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| Now at the Seventh Gate the seventh chief | B |
| Thy proper mother's son I will announce | C |
| What fortune for this city for himself | D |
| With curses he invoketh on the walls | E |
| Ascending heralded as king to stand | F |
| With paeans for their capture then with thee | G |
| To fight and either slaying near thee die | H |
| Or thee who wronged him chasing forth alive | I |
| Requite in kind his proper banishment | J |
| Such words he shouts and calls upon the gods | K |
| Who o'er his race preside and Fatherland | F |
| With gracious eye to look upon his prayers | L |
| A well wrought buckler newly forged he bears | L |
| With twofold blazon riveted thereon | M |
| For there a woman leads with sober mien | N |
| A mailed warrior enchased in gold | O |
| Justice her style and thus the legend speaks | P |
| 'This man I will restore and he shall hold | O |
| The city and his father's palace homes ' | - |
| Such the devices of the hostile chiefs | Q |
| 'Tis for thyself to choose whom thou wilt send | R |
| But never shalt thou blame my herald words | S |
| To guide the rudder of the State be thine | T |
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| ETEOCLES | S |
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| O heaven demented race of Oedipus | S |
| My race tear fraught detested of the gods | S |
| Alas our father's curses now bear fruit | U |
| But it beseems not to lament or weep | V |
| Lest lamentations sadder still be born | W |
| For him too truly Polyneikes named | X |
| What his device will work we soon shall know | Y |
| Whether his braggart words with madness fraught | Z |
| Gold blazoned on his shield shall lead him back | A2 |
| Hath Justice communed with or claimed him hers | S |
| Guided his deeds and thoughts this might have been | B2 |
| But neither when he fled the darksome womb | C2 |
| Or in his childhood or in youth's fair prime | D2 |
| Or when the hair thick gathered on his chin | B2 |
| Hath Justice communed with or claimed him hers | S |
| Nor in this outrage on his Fatherland | F |
| Deem I she now beside him deigns to stand | F |
| For Justice would in sooth belie her name | E2 |
| Did she with this all daring man consort | F2 |
| In these regards confiding will I go | Y |
| Myself will meet him Who with better right | G2 |
| Brother to brother chieftain against chief | B |
| Foeman to foe I'll stand Quick bring my spear | H2 |
| My greaves and armor bulwark against stones | S |
Aeschylus
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