Ionian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EEFGH I| Just because we've torn their statues down | A |
| and cast them from their temples | B |
| doesn't for a moment mean the gods are dead | C |
| Land of Ionia they love you yet | D |
| - | |
| their spirits still remember you | E |
| When an August morning breaks upon you | E |
| a vigour from their lives stabs through your air | F |
| and sometimes an ethereal and youthful form | G |
| in swiftest passage indistinct | H |
| - | |
| passes up above your hills | I |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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