The Lost Tails Of Miletus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ABDE DEDF AFFD| High on the Thracian hills half hid in the billows of clover | A |
| Thyme and the asphodel blooms and lulled by Pactolian streamlet | B |
| She of Miletus lay and beside her an aged satyr | A |
| Scratched his ear with his hoof and playfully mumbled his chestnuts | C |
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| Vainly the Maenid and the Bassarid gamboled about her | A |
| The free eyed Bacchante sang and Pan the renowned the accomplished | B |
| Executed his difficult solo In vain were their gambols and dances | D |
| High o'er the Thracian hills rose the voice of the shepherdess wailing | E |
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| Ai for the fleecy flocks the meek nosed the passionless faces | D |
| Ai for the tallow scented the straight tailed the high stepping | E |
| Ai for the timid glance which is that which the rustic sagacious | D |
| Applies to him who loves but may not declare his passion | F |
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| Her then Zeus answered slow O daughter of song and sorrow | A |
| Hapless tender of sheep arise from thy long lamentation | F |
| Since thou canst not trust fate nor behave as becomes a Greek maiden | F |
| Look and behold thy sheep And lo they returned to her tailless | D |
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