The Town Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCBBA BDDEEFFBYou said I ll go to another land to other seaways wandering | A |
Some other town may yet be found better than this | B |
Where every effort of mine is a writ of guiltiness | B |
And my heart seems buried like a corpse My mind | C |
How long is it to be in this decay confined | C |
Wherever I turn wherever I lift my eyes | B |
The blackening ruins of my life arise | B |
here I have spent so many years spoiling and swquandering | A |
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You ll find no other places no new seas in all your wanderings | B |
The town will follow you about You ll range | D |
In the same streets In the same suburbs change | D |
From youth to age inn this same house grow white | E |
No hope of another town this is where you ll always alight | E |
There is no road to another there is no ship | F |
To take you there As here in this small strip | F |
You spoiled your life the whole earth felt your squanderings | B |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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