Athena Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCD CEC FGE GHG IJA KEL MENG| Force of reason who shut up the shrill | A |
| foul Furies in the dungeon of the Parthenon | B |
| led whimpering to the cave they live in still | A |
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| beneath the rock your city foundered on | B |
| who equivocating taught revenge to sing | C |
| or seem to or be about to a kindlier tune | D |
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| mind that can make a scheme of anything | C |
| a game a grid a system a mere folder | E |
| in the universal file drawer uncompromising | C |
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| mediatrix virgin married to the welfare | F |
| of the body politic deific contradiction | G |
| warbonnet wearing olive bearer author | E |
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| of the law's delays you who as talisman | G |
| and totem still wear the aegis baleful | H |
| with Medusa's scowl though shrunken | G |
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| and self mummified a Gorgon still cool | I |
| guarantor of the averted look the guide | J |
| of Perseus who killed and could not kill | A |
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| the thing he'd hounded to its source the dread | K |
| thing in itself none can elude whose counter | E |
| feit we halfway hanker for aware gone mad | L |
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| with clarity we have invented all you stand for | M |
| though we despise the artifice a space to savor | E |
| horror to pre enact our own undoing in | N |
| living we stare into the mirror of the Gorgon | G |
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