A Prince From Western Libya Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFAEAGH AIADJKDLM ANFO| Aristomenis son of Menelaos | A |
| the Prince from Western Libya | B |
| was generally liked in Alexandria | B |
| during the ten days he spent there | C |
| As his name his dress modest was also Greek | D |
| He received honors gladly | E |
| but he did not solicit them he was unassuming | F |
| He bought Greek books | A |
| especially history and philosophy | E |
| Above all he was a man of few words | A |
| It got around that he must be a profound thinker | G |
| and men like that naturally don't speak very much | H |
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| He was neither a profound thinker nor anything else | A |
| just a piddling laughable man | I |
| He assumed a Greek name dressed like the Greeks | A |
| learned to behave more or less like a Greek | D |
| and all the time he was terrified he would spoil | J |
| his reasonably good image | K |
| by coming out with barbaric howlers in Greek | D |
| and the Alexandrians in their usual way | L |
| would make fun of him vile people that they are | M |
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| This was why he limited himself to a few words | A |
| terribly careful of his syntax and pronunciation | N |
| and he was driven almost out of his mind having | F |
| so much talk bottled up inside him | O |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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