Pisidice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDFFGFH IJIJJGJH KLKLLGLH MNMNNGNH OEOEEGEH| The incident is from the Love Stories of Parthenius who | A |
| preserved fragments of a lost epic on the expedition of | B |
| Achilles against Lesbos an island allied with Troy | C |
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| The daughter of the Lesbian king | D |
| Within her bower she watched the war | E |
| Far off she heard the arrows ring | D |
| The smitten harness ring afar | F |
| And fighting from the foremost car | F |
| Saw one that smote where all must flee | G |
| More fair than the Immortals are | F |
| He seemed to fair Pisidice | H |
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| She saw she loved him and her heart | I |
| Before Achilles Peleus' son | J |
| Threw all its guarded gates apart | I |
| A maiden fortress lightly won | J |
| And ere that day of fight was done | J |
| No more of land or faith recked she | G |
| But joyed in her new life begun | J |
| Her life of love Pisidice | H |
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| She took a gift into her hand | K |
| As one that had a boon to crave | L |
| She stole across the ruined land | K |
| Where lay the dead without a grave | L |
| And to Achilles' hand she gave | L |
| Her gift the secret postern's key | G |
| To morrow let me be thy slave | L |
| Moaned to her love Pisidice | H |
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| Ere dawn the Argives' clarion call | M |
| Rang down Methymna's burning street | N |
| They slew the sleeping warriors all | M |
| They drove the women to the fleet | N |
| Save one that to Achilles' feet | N |
| Clung but in sudden wrath cried he | G |
| For her no doom but death is meet | N |
| And there men stoned Pisidice | H |
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| In havens of that haunted coast | O |
| Amid the myrtles of the shore | E |
| The moon sees many a maiden ghost | O |
| Love's outcast now and evermore | E |
| The silence hears the shades deplore | E |
| Their hour of dear bought love but THEE | G |
| The waves lull 'neath thine olives hoar | E |
| To dreamless rest Pisidice | H |
Andrew Lang
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