The First Step Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFBEGAHIJKHLHMA KNAOJK| The young poet Evmenis | A |
| complained one day to Theocritus | A |
| I've been writing for two years now | B |
| and I've composed only one idyll | C |
| It's my single completed work | D |
| I see sadly that the ladder | E |
| of Poetry is tall extremely tall | F |
| and from this first step I'm standing on now | B |
| I'll never climb any higher | E |
| Theocritus retorted Words like that | G |
| are improper blasphemous | A |
| Just to be on the first step | H |
| should make you happy and proud | I |
| To have reached this point is no small achievement | J |
| what you've done already is a wonderful thing | K |
| Even this first step | H |
| is a long way above the ordinary world | L |
| To stand on this step | H |
| you must be in your own right | M |
| a member of the city of ideas | A |
| And it's a hard unusual thing | K |
| to be enrolled as a citizen of that city | N |
| Its councils are full of Legislators | A |
| no charlatan can fool | O |
| To have reached this point is no small achievement | J |
| what you've done already is a wonderful thing | K |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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