Herodis Attikos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEBBFAG HIAAHAJKLHAEMHN| What glory this for Herodis Attikos | A |
| Alexander of Selefkia one of our better sophists | A |
| on reaching Athens to lecture | B |
| finds the city deserted | C |
| because Herodis was in the country and all the young men | D |
| had followed him there to hear him | E |
| This makes sophist Alexander | B |
| write Herodis a letter | B |
| begging him to send the Greeks back | F |
| And the tactful Herodis answers at once | A |
| 'Along with the Greeks I'm coming too ' | G |
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| How many young men now in Alexandria | H |
| in Antioch or Beirut | I |
| being trained by Hellenism as its future orators | A |
| meeting at choice banquets | A |
| where the talk is sometimes about fine sophistry | H |
| sometimes about their exquisite love affairs | A |
| suddenly find their attention wandering and fall silent | J |
| Their glasses untouched | K |
| they think about Herodis' fortune | L |
| what other sophist has been given this kind of honour | H |
| Whatever his wish whatever he does | A |
| the Greeks the Greeks follow him | E |
| not to criticize or debate | M |
| not even to choose any longer | H |
| only to follow | N |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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