That's The Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CDEF DDG| Unknown a stranger in Antioch the man from Edessa | A |
| writes and writes And at last there | B |
| the final canto's done That makes | A |
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| eighty three poems in all But so much writing | C |
| so much versifying the intense strain | D |
| of phrasing in Greek has worn the poet out | E |
| and now everything has gone stale | F |
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| But a thought suddenly brings him out of his dejection | D |
| the sublime 'That's the man' | D |
| which Lucian once heard in his sleep | G |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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