The Funeral Of Sarpedon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFGBHAIJKCLMNON PQRSJTUNGQNVNWVVVVNB X| Zeus mourns deeply | A |
| Patroklos has killed Sarpedon | B |
| Now Patroklos and the Achaians rush on | B |
| to snatch up the body to dishonour it | C |
| But Zeus doesn't tolerate that at all | D |
| Though he let his favourite child be killed | E |
| this the Law required | F |
| he'll at least honour him after death | G |
| So he now sends Apollo down to the plain | B |
| with instructions about how the body should be tended | H |
| Apollo reverently raises the hero's body | A |
| and carries it in sorrow to the river | I |
| He washes the dust and blood away | J |
| heals the terrible wounds so there's no trace left | K |
| pours perfume of ambrosia over it | C |
| and dresses it in radiant Olympian robes | L |
| He bleaches the skin and with a pearl comb | M |
| combs out the jet black hair | N |
| He spreads and arranges the beautiful limbs | O |
| Now he looks like a young king a royal charioteer | N |
| twenty five or twenty six years old | P |
| resting himself after winning | Q |
| the prize in a famous race | R |
| his chariot all gold and his horses the fastest | S |
| Having finished his task this way | J |
| Apollo calls for the two brothers | T |
| Sleep and Death and orders them | U |
| to take the body to Lykia the rich country | N |
| So the two brothers Sleep and Death | G |
| set off on foot toward the rich country Lykia | Q |
| and when they reached the door | N |
| of the king's palace | V |
| they handed over the honoured body | N |
| and then returned to their other concerns | W |
| And once the body was received in the palace | V |
| the sad burial began with processions and honours and dirges | V |
| with many libations from sacred vessels | V |
| with all pomp and circumstance | V |
| Then skilled workers from the city | N |
| and celebrated craftsmen in stone | B |
| came to make the tombstone and the tomb | X |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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