To Have Taken The Trouble Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD CEFGHIJKLM NCO CPIQR SCICI T UIO RVWXY| I'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 |
| - | |
| So I consider myself completely qualified | N |
| to serve this country | C |
| my beloved fatherland Syria | O |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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