Sculptor Of Tyana Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHDCIIJECKCLCA MKNCC| As you'll have heard I'm no beginner | A |
| I've handled a lot of stone in my time | B |
| and in my own country Tyana I'm really quite famous | C |
| Actually a number of senators here | D |
| have also commissioned works of mine | E |
| Let me show you | F |
| a few of them Notice this Rhea | G |
| reverential all fortitude most primitive | H |
| Notice Pompey And Marius here | D |
| and Paulus Aemilius and Scipio Africanus | C |
| The likeness as close as I could make it | I |
| And Patroklos I still have to touch him up a bit | I |
| Near those pieces of yellowish marble there | J |
| stands Kaisarion | E |
| And for some time now I've been busy | C |
| working on a Poseidon I'm studying | K |
| his horses in particular how to shape them exactly | C |
| They have to be made so light | L |
| that it's clear their bodies their legs | C |
| aren't touching the earth but galloping over water | A |
| But here's my favourite work | M |
| created with the most care and feeling | K |
| This one it was a hot summer day | N |
| and my mind rose to ideal things | C |
| this one came to me in a vision this young Hermes | C |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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