Chorus From Oedipus At Colonos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJ KLMNOPPQMR STUVOIP| What is unwisdom but the lusting after | A |
| Longevity to be old and full of days | B |
| For the vast and unremitting tide of years | C |
| Casts up to view more sorrowful things than joyful | D |
| And as for pleasures once beyond our prime | E |
| They all drift out of reach they are washed away | F |
| And the same gaunt bailiff calls upon us all | G |
| Summoning into Darkness to those wards | H |
| Where is no music dance or marriage hymn | I |
| That soothes or gladdens To the tenements of Death | J |
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| Not to be born is past all yearning best | K |
| And second best is having seen the light | L |
| To return at once to deep oblivion | M |
| When youth has gone and the baseless dreams of youth | N |
| What misery does not then jostle man's elbow | O |
| Join him as a companion share his bread | P |
| Betrayal envy calumny and bloodshed | P |
| Move in on him and finally Old Age | Q |
| Infirm despised Old Age joins in his ruin | M |
| The crowning taunt of his indignities | R |
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| So is it with that man not just with me | S |
| He seems like a frail jetty facing North | T |
| Whose pilings the waves batter from all quarters | U |
| From where the sun comes up from where it sets | V |
| From freezing boreal regions from below | O |
| A whole winter of miseries now assails him | I |
| Thrashes his sides and breaks over his head | P |
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