The Lament Of The Old Nurse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKILMNOIPQRS TUVWXYZA2WB2C2TD2E2F 2| NURSE | A |
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| Our mistress bids me with all speed to call | B |
| Aegisthus to the strangers that he come | C |
| And hear more clearly as a man from man | D |
| This newly brought report Before her slaves | E |
| Under set eyes of melancholy cast | F |
| She hid her inner chuckle at the events | G |
| That have been brought to pass too well for her | H |
| But for this house and hearth most miserably | I |
| As in the tale the strangers clearly told | J |
| He when he hears and learns the story's gist | K |
| Will joy I trow in heart Ah wretched me | I |
| How those old troubles of all sorts made up | L |
| Most hard to bear in Atreus's palace halls | M |
| Have made my heart full heavy in my breast | N |
| But never have I known a woe like this | O |
| For other ills I bore full patiently | I |
| But as for dear Orestes my sweet charge | P |
| Whom from his mother I received and nursed | Q |
| And then the shrill cries rousing me o' nights | R |
| And many and unprofitable toils | S |
| For me who bore them For one needs must rear | T |
| The heedless infant like an animal | U |
| How can it else be as his humor serve | V |
| For while a child is yet in swaddling clothes | W |
| It speaketh not if either hunger comes | X |
| Or passing thirst or lower calls of need | Y |
| And children's stomach works its own content | Z |
| And I though I foresaw this call to mind | A2 |
| How I was cheated washing swaddling clothes | W |
| And nurse and laundress did the selfsame work | B2 |
| I then with these my double handicrafts | C2 |
| Brought up Orestes for his father dear | T |
| And now woe's me I learn that he is dead | D2 |
| And go to fetch the man that mars this house | E2 |
| And gladly will he hear these words of mine | F2 |
Aeschylus
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