How We Heard The Name Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGBHIJIKELKMNOP QRKS| The river brought down | A |
| dead horses dead men | B |
| and military debris | C |
| indicative of war | D |
| or official acts upstream | E |
| but it went by it all | F |
| goes by that is the thing | G |
| about the river Then | B |
| a soldier on a log | H |
| went by He seemed drunk | I |
| and we asked him Why | J |
| had he and this junk | I |
| come down to us so | K |
| from the past upstream | E |
| Friends he said the great | L |
| Battle of Granicus | K |
| has just been won | M |
| by all of the Greeks except | N |
| the Lacedaemonians and | O |
| myself this is a joke | P |
| between me and a man | Q |
| named Alexander whom | R |
| all of you ba bas | K |
| will hear of as a god | S |
Alan Dugan
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