Priest At The Serapeion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFGHAIH| My kind old father | A |
| whose love for me has always stayed the same | B |
| I mourn my kind old father | A |
| who died two days ago just before dawn | C |
| - | |
| Jesus Christ I try continually | D |
| in my every thought word and deed | E |
| to keep the commandments | F |
| of your most holly Church and I reject | G |
| all who deny you But now I mourn | H |
| I grieve O Christ for my father | A |
| even though he was terrible as it is to say it | I |
| priest at that cursed Serapeion | H |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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