In 200 B.c. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCADEAEFGA H AHIHI JGAKLM AACAAANA O| Alexander son of Philip and the Greeks except the Lacedaemonians | A |
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| We can very well imagine | B |
| that they were utterly indifferent in Sparta | C |
| to this inscription Except the Lacedaemonians | A |
| but naturally The Spartans were not | D |
| to be led and ordered about | E |
| as precious servants Besides | A |
| a panhellenic campaign without | E |
| a Spartan king as a leader | F |
| would not have appeared very important | G |
| O of course except the Lacedaemonians | A |
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| This too is a stand Understandable | H |
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| Thus except the Lacedaemonians at Granicus | A |
| and then at Issus and in the final | H |
| battle where the formidable army was swept away | I |
| that the Persians had massed at Arbela | H |
| which had set out from Arbela for victory and was swept away | I |
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| And out of the remarkable panhellenic campaign | J |
| victorious brilliant | G |
| celebrated glorious | A |
| as no other had ever been glorified | K |
| the incomparable we emerged | L |
| a great new Greek world | M |
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| We the Alexandrians the Antiocheans | A |
| the Seleucians and the numerous | A |
| rest of the Greeks of Egypt and Syria | C |
| and of Media and Persia and the many others | A |
| With our extensive territories | A |
| with the varied action of thoughtful adaptations | A |
| And the Common Greek Language | N |
| we carried to the heart of Bactria to the Indians | A |
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| As if we were to talk of Lacedaemonians now | O |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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