Simeon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAAAAAEAFGAHIJAEK LJEMCACNO| Yes I know his new poems | A |
| all Beirut is raving about them | B |
| I'll study them some other day | C |
| I can't today because I'm rather upset | D |
| Certainly he's more learned in Greek than Libanius | A |
| A better poet than Meleager though I wouldn't say so | A |
| But Mebis why talk about Libanius | A |
| and books and all these trivialities | A |
| Mebis yesterday it happened by chance | A |
| I found myself under Simeon's pillar | E |
| I slipped in among the Christians | A |
| praying and worshipping in silence there | F |
| revering him Not being a Christian myself | G |
| I couldn't share their spiritual peace | A |
| I trembled all over and suffered | H |
| I shuddered disturbed completely caught up | I |
| Please don't smile for thirty five years think of it | J |
| winter and summer night and day for thirty five years | A |
| he's been living suffering on top of a pillar | E |
| Before either of us was born I'm twenty nine | K |
| you must be younger than me | L |
| before we were born just imagine it | J |
| Simeon climbed up his pillar | E |
| and has stayed there ever since facing God | M |
| I'm in no mood for work today | C |
| but Mebis I think it better that you tell them this | A |
| whatever the other sophists may say | C |
| I at least recognize Lamon | N |
| as Syria's leading poet | O |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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