Theodotus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFGHAIJ KLMNOOP| If you are truly one of the select few | A |
| watch how you acquire your power | B |
| However much you are glorified however much | C |
| the cities in Italy and in Thessaly | D |
| acclaim your achievements | E |
| however many decrees in your honor | B |
| your admirers may have issued in Rome | F |
| neither your joy nor your triumph will last | G |
| nor will you feel like a superior what do you mean superior man | H |
| when in Alexandria Theodotus brings you | A |
| upon a bloodstained tray | I |
| the head of the wretched Pompey | J |
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| And do not rely on the fact that in your life | K |
| circumscribed regulated and prosaic | L |
| there are no such spectacular and terrifying things | M |
| Perhaps at this very hour Theodotus is entering | N |
| the well appointed house of one of your neighbors | O |
| invisible bodiless | O |
| carrying such a hideous head | P |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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