To Have Taken The Trouble Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD CEFGHIJKLM NCO CPIQR SCICI T UIO RVWXYI'm practically broke and homeless | A |
This fatal city Antioch | B |
has devoured all my money | C |
this fatal city with its extravagant life | D |
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But I'm young and extremely healthy | C |
Prodigious master of Greek | E |
I know Aristotle and Plato through and through | F |
poets orators or anyone else you could mention | G |
I have some idea about military matters | H |
and friends among the senior mercenaries | I |
I also have a foot in the administrative world | J |
I spent six months in Alexandria last year | K |
I know and this is useful something about what goes on there | L |
the scheming of Kakergetis his dirty deals and the rest of it | M |
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So I consider myself completely qualified | N |
to serve this country | C |
my beloved fatherland Syria | O |
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Whatever job they give me | C |
I'll try to be useful to the country That's what I intend | P |
But if they frustrate me with their manoeuvres | I |
we know them those smart operators no need to say more here | Q |
if they frustrate me it's not my fault | R |
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I'll approach Zabinas first | S |
and if that idiot doesn't appreciate me | C |
I'll go to his rival Grypos | I |
And if that imbecile doesn't appoint me | C |
I'll go straight to Hyrkanos | I |
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One of the three will want me anyway | T |
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And my conscience is quiet | U |
about my not caring which one I choose | I |
the three of them are equally bad for Syria | O |
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But a ruined man it's not my fault | R |
I'm only trying poor devil to make ends meet | V |
The almighty gods ought to have taken the trouble | W |
to create a fourth a decent man | X |
I would gladly have gone along with him | Y |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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