The Origin Of The Peloponnesian War Poem Rhyme Scheme

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DICAEOPOLIS	A
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Be not surprised most excellent spectators	A
If I that am a beggar have presumed	B
To claim an audience upon public matters	A
Even in a comedy for comedy	C
Is conversant in all the rules of justice	A
And can distinguish betwixt right and wrong	D
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The words I speak are bold but just and true	E
Cleon at least cannot accuse me now	F
That I defame the city before strangers	A
For this is the Lenaean festival	G
And here we meet all by ourselves alone	H
No deputies are arrived as yet with tribute	I
No strangers or allies but here we sit	J
A chosen sample clean as sifted corn	K
With our own denizens as a kind of chaff	L
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First I detest the Spartans most extremely	C
And wish that Neptune the Taenarian deity	C
Would bury them in their houses with his earthquakes	A
For I've had losses losses let me tell ye	C
Like other people vines cut down and injured	M
But among friends for only friends are here	N
Why should we blame the Spartans for all this	A
For people of ours some people of our own	H
Some people from among us here I mean	O
But not the People pray remember that	P
I never said the People but a pack	Q
Of paltry people mere pretended citizens	A
Base counterfeits went laying informations	A
And making a confiscation of the jerkins	A
Imported here from Megara pigs moreover	R
Pumpkins and pecks of salt and ropes of onions	A
Were voted to be merchandise from Megara	R
Denounced and seized and sold upon the spot	S
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Well these might pass as petty local matters	A
But now behold some doughty drunken youths	A
Kidnap and carry away from Megara	R
The courtesan Simaetha Those of Megara	R
In hot retaliation seize a brace	A
Of equal strumpets hurried forth perforce	A
From Dame Aspasia's house of recreation	T
So this was the beginning of the war	R
All over Greece owing to these three strumpets	A
For Pericles like an Olympian Jove	L
With all his thunder and his thunderbolts	A
Began to storm and lighten dreadfully	C
Alarming all the neighborhood of Greece	A
And made decrees drawn up like drinking songs	A
In which it was enacted and concluded	U
That the Megarians should remain excluded	U
From every place where commerce was transacted	V
With all their ware like 'old Care' in the ballad	U
And this decree by land and sea was valid	U
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Then the Megarians being all half starved	W
Desired the Spartans to desire of us	A
Just to repeal those laws the laws I mentioned	X
Occasioned by the stealing of those strumpets	A
And so they begged and prayed us several times	A
And we refused and so they went to war	R

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