Caesarion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFGHI AJCC KHHLIEMHNEOCAPHE| Partly to verify an era | A |
| partly also to pass the time | B |
| last night I picked up a collection | C |
| of Ptolemaic epigrams to read | D |
| The plentiful praises and flatteries | E |
| for everyone are similar They are all brilliant | F |
| glorious mighty beneficent | F |
| each of their enterprises the wisest | G |
| If you talk of the women of that breed they too | H |
| all the Berenices and Cleopatras are admirable | I |
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| When I had managed to verify the era | A |
| I would have put the book away had not a small | J |
| and insignificant mention of king Caesarion | C |
| immediately attracted my attention | C |
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| Behold you came with your vague | K |
| charm In history only a few | H |
| lines are found about you | H |
| and so I molded you more freely in my mind | L |
| I molded you handsome and sentimental | I |
| My art gives to your face | E |
| a dreamy compassionate beauty | M |
| And so fully did I envision you | H |
| that late last night as my lamp | N |
| was going out I let go out on purpose | E |
| I fancied that you entered my room | O |
| it seemed that you stood before me as you might have been | C |
| in vanquished Alexandria | A |
| pale and tired idealistic in your sorrow | P |
| still hoping that they would pity you | H |
| the wicked who whispered Too many Caesars | E |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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