The Town Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCBBA BDDEEFFB

You said I ll go to another land to other seaways wanderingA
Some other town may yet be found better than thisB
Where every effort of mine is a writ of guiltinessB
And my heart seems buried like a corpse My mindC
How long is it to be in this decay confinedC
Wherever I turn wherever I lift my eyesB
The blackening ruins of my life ariseB
here I have spent so many years spoiling and swquanderingA
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You ll find no other places no new seas in all your wanderingsB
The town will follow you about You ll rangeD
In the same streets In the same suburbs changeD
From youth to age inn this same house grow whiteE
No hope of another town this is where you ll always alightE
There is no road to another there is no shipF
To take you there As here in this small stripF
You spoiled your life the whole earth felt your squanderingsB

Constantine P. Cavafy



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