Penelope To Ulysses. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEEFFGGHH IJJJKLHHMM| Return my dearest Lord at length return | A |
| Let me no longer your sad absence mourn | B |
| Ilium in Dust does no more Work afford | C |
| No more Employment for your Wit or Sword | C |
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| Why did not the fore seeing Gods destroy | D |
| Helin the Fire brand both of Greece and Troy | D |
| E're yet the Fatal Youth her Face had seen | E |
| E're lov'd and born away the wanton Queen | E |
| Then had been stopt the mighty Floud of Woe | F |
| Which now both Greece and Phrygia over flow | F |
| Then I these many Teares should not have shed | G |
| Nor thou the source of them to War been led | G |
| I should not then have trembled at the Fame | H |
| Of Hectors warlike and victorious Name | H |
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| Why did I wish the Noble Hector Slain | I |
| Why Ilium ruin'd Rise O rise again | J |
| Again great City flourish from thine Urne | J |
| For though thou'rt burn'd my Lord does not return | J |
| Sometimes I think but O most Cruel Thought | K |
| That for thy Absence th' art thy self in fault | L |
| That thou art captiv'd by some captive Dame | H |
| Who when thou fired'st Troy did thee inflame | H |
| And now with her thou lead'st thy am'rous Life | M |
| Forgetful and despising of thy Wife | M |
Anne Killigrew
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