Alexander Jannaios And Alexandra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBBBFGBHBFBCIJKL BMBBFI| Full of their success thoroughly satisfied | A |
| King Alexander Jannaios | B |
| and his wife Queen Alexandra | C |
| move through the streets of Jerusalem | D |
| with musicians in the lead | E |
| and every kind of pomp and circumstance | B |
| The work begun by the great Judas Maccabaios | B |
| and his four celebrated brothers | B |
| has now been concluded brilliantly | F |
| work relentlessly carried on | G |
| among so many obstacles and dangers | B |
| Nothing unseemly remains now | H |
| All subservience to the haughty monarchs | B |
| of Antioch is over Clearly | F |
| King Alexander Jannaios | B |
| and his wife Queen Alexandra | C |
| are equal to the Selefkids in every way | I |
| Good Jews pure Jews devoted Jews above all | J |
| But as circumstances require | K |
| also skilled in speaking Greek | L |
| even on familiar terms with Greeks and Hellenized monarchs | B |
| as equals though let that be understood | M |
| The work begun by the great Judas Maccabaios | B |
| and his four celebrated brothers | B |
| has indeed been concluded brilliantly | F |
| concluded in the most striking way | I |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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