Days Of 1908 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BCBDD ECAFGBH CIC BAA BAA CJKLMAN| That was the year when he stayed | A |
| Without work for a living played | A |
| Cards or backgammon or borrowed and never paid | A |
| - | |
| He was offered a place at a small | B |
| Stationer s three pounds a month It didn t suit him | C |
| It was not decent pay at all | B |
| He refused it without hesitation | D |
| He was twenty five and of good education | D |
| - | |
| Two or three shillings he made more or less | E |
| From cards and backgammon what could a boy skim | C |
| At the common places the caf s of his grade | A |
| Although he played sharply and picked stupid players | F |
| As for borrowing that didn t always come off | G |
| He seldom struck a dollar oftener he d fall | B |
| To half and sometimes as low as a shilling | H |
| - | |
| Sometimes when he got away from the grim | C |
| Night sitting for a week at a time or more | I |
| He would cool himself at the baths with a morning swim | C |
| - | |
| The shabbiness of his clothes was tragical | B |
| He always wore the same suit always displayed | A |
| A suit of cinnamon brown discoloured and frayed | A |
| - | |
| O summer days of nineteen hundred and eight I recall | B |
| The picture of you and out of it seems to fade | A |
| Harmoniously that cinnamon suit discoloured and frayed | A |
| - | |
| The picture of you has preserved him | C |
| Just as he would take off would fling down | J |
| The unworthy clothes the mended under clothes | K |
| And remain all naked faultlessly beautiful a wonder | L |
| Uncombed and lifted up his hair was | M |
| His limbs a little sunburnt | A |
| From the morning nakedness at the baths and on the beach | N |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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