The Lost Tails Of Miletus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ADAEEF EFEG AGGE| 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 | D |
| accomplished Executed his difficult solo In vain were their | A |
| gambols and dances | E |
| High o'er the Thracian hills rose the voice of the shepherdess | E |
| wailing | F |
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| Ai for the fleecy flocks the meek nosed the passionless faces | E |
| Ai for the tallow scented the straight tailed the high stepping | F |
| Ai for the timid glance which is that which the rustic sagacious | E |
| Applies to him who loves but may not declare his passion | G |
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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 | G |
| Since thou canst not trust fate nor behave as becomes a Greek maiden | G |
| Look and behold thy sheep And lo they returned to her tailless | E |
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