Poseidonians Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFGHIBJKLMN| The Poseidonians forgot the Greek language | A |
| after so many centuries of mingling | B |
| with Tyrrhenians Latins and other foreigners | C |
| The only thing surviving from their ancestors | C |
| was a Greek festival with beautiful rites | D |
| with lyres and flutes contests and wreaths | E |
| And it was their habit toward the festival's end | F |
| to tell each other about their ancient customs | G |
| and once again to speak Greek names | H |
| that only few of them still recognized | I |
| And so their festival always had a melancholy ending | B |
| because they remebered that they too were Greeks | J |
| they too once upon a time were citizens of Magna Graecia | K |
| and how low they'd fallen now what they'd become | L |
| living and speaking like barbarians | M |
| cut off so disastrously from the Greek way of life | N |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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