Euchenor Chorus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEFE GGAH IIJJ KKLL| Of old it went forth to Euchenor pronounced of his sire | A |
| Reluctant impelled by the god's unescapable fire | A |
| To choose for his doom or to perish at home of disease | B |
| Or be slain of his foes among men where Troy surges down to the seas | B |
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| Polyides the soothsayer spake it inflamed by the god | C |
| Of his son whom the fates singled out did he bruit it abroad | D |
| And Euchenor went down to the ships with his armor and men | E |
| And straightway grown dim on the gulf passed the isles | F |
| he passed never again | E |
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| Why weep ye O women of Corinth The doom ye have heard | G |
| Is it strange to your ears that ye make it so mournful a word | G |
| Is he who so fair in your eyes to his manhood upgrew | A |
| Alone in his doom of pale death are of mortals the beaten so few | H |
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| O weep not companions and lovers Turn back to your joys | I |
| The defeat was not his which he chose nor the victory Troy's | I |
| Him a conqueror beauteous in youth o'er the flood his fleet brought | J |
| And the swift spear of Paris that slew completed the conquest he sought | J |
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| Not the falling proclaims the defeat but the place of the fall | K |
| And the fate that decrees and the god that impels through it all | K |
| Regard not blind mortals' divisions of slayer and slain | L |
| But invisible glories dispense wide over the war gleaming plain | L |
Arthur Upson
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