Antony's Ending Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP| But when he heard the women wailing | A |
| lamenting his sorry state | B |
| madam with her oriental gestures | C |
| and her slaves with their barbarized Greek | D |
| the pride in his soul rose up | E |
| his Italian blood sickened with disgust | F |
| and all he'd worshipped blindly till then | G |
| his wild Alexandrian life | H |
| now seemed dull and alien | I |
| And he told them 'to stop wailing for him | J |
| that kind of thing was all wrong | K |
| They ought to be singing his praises | L |
| for having been a great ruler | M |
| a rich heroic man | N |
| And if he'd fallen now he hadn't fallen humbly | O |
| but as a Roman vanquished by a Roman ' | P |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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