Of Dimitrios Sotir Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLHMJKNOPL EQRSRTHRUVRLWXHYZHA2 B2LC2HD2RRW| Everything he'd hoped for turned out wrong | A |
| He'd seen himself doing great things | B |
| ending the humiliation that had kept his country down | C |
| ever since the battle of Magnesia | D |
| seen himself making Syria a powerful state again | E |
| with her armies her fleets | F |
| her big fortresses her wealth | G |
| He'd suffered in Rome become bitter | H |
| when he sensed in the talk of friends | I |
| young men of the great families | J |
| that in spite of all their delicacy their politeness | K |
| toward him the son | L |
| of King Selefkos Philopator | H |
| when he sensed that in spite of this there was always | M |
| a secret contempt for the Hellenized dynasties | J |
| their heyday was over they weren't fit for anything serious | K |
| were completely unable to rule their peoples | N |
| He'd cut himself off indignant swearing | O |
| it would be quite different from the way they thought | P |
| Why wasn't he himself full of determination | L |
| He would act he would fight he would put it all right again | E |
| If he could only find a way of getting to the East | Q |
| only manage to escape from Italy | R |
| then all this inner strength | S |
| all this energy | R |
| he'd pass on to his people | T |
| Only to be in Syria | H |
| He was so young when he left his country | R |
| he hardly remembered what it looked like | U |
| But in his mind he'd always thought of it | V |
| as something sacred that you approach reverently | R |
| as a beautiful place unveiled a vision | L |
| of Greek cities and Greek ports | W |
| And now | X |
| Now despair and sorrow | H |
| They were right the young men in Rome | Y |
| The dynasties resulting from the Macedonian Conquest | Z |
| can't be kept going any longer | H |
| It doesn't matter He'd made the effort | A2 |
| fought as much as he could | B2 |
| And in his bleak disillusion | L |
| there's only one thing in which he still takes pride | C2 |
| that even in failure | H |
| he shows the world his same indomitable courage | D2 |
| The rest they were dreams and wasted energy | R |
| This Syria it almost seems it isn't his country | R |
| this Syria is the land of Valas and Herakleidis | W |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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