Achilles Over The Trench Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJHKCJHLMBAIN IIIOPIQERSITI| ILIAD XVIII O | A |
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| So saying light foot Iris pass'd away | B |
| Then rose Achilles dear to Zeus and round | C |
| The warrior's puissant shoulders Pallas flung | D |
| Her fringed gis and around his head | E |
| The glorious goddess wreath'd a golden cloud | F |
| And from it lighted an all shining flame | G |
| As when a smoke from a city goes to heaven | H |
| Far off from out an island girt by foes | I |
| All day the men contend in grievous war | J |
| From their own city but with set of sun | H |
| Their fires flame thickly and aloft the glare | K |
| Flies streaming if perchance the neighbours round | C |
| May see and sail to help them in the war | J |
| So from his head the splendour went to heaven | H |
| From wall to dyke he stept he stood nor join'd | L |
| The Ach ans honouring his wise mother's word | M |
| There standing shouted and Pallas far away | B |
| Call'd and a boundless panic shook the foe | A |
| For like the clear voice when a trumpet shrills | I |
| Blown by the fierce beleaguerers of a town | N |
| So rang the clear voice of akid s | I |
| And when the brazen cry of akid s | I |
| Was heard among the Trojans all their hearts | I |
| Were troubled and the full maned horses whirl'd | O |
| The chariots backward knowing griefs at hand | P |
| And sheer astounded were the charioteers | I |
| To see the dread unweariable fire | Q |
| That always o'er the great Peleion's head | E |
| Burn'd for the bright eyed goddess made it burn | R |
| Thrice from the dyke he sent his mighty shout | S |
| Thrice backward reel'd the Trojans and allies | I |
| And there and then twelve of their noblest died | T |
| Among their spears and chariots | I |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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