Unfaithfulness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UVWND| When Thetis and Peleus got married | A |
| Apollo stood up at the sumptuous wedding feast | B |
| and blessed the bridal pair | C |
| for the son who would come from their union | D |
| 'Sickness will never visit him ' he said | E |
| 'and his life will be a long one ' | F |
| This pleased Thetis immensely | G |
| the words of Apollo expert in prophecies | H |
| seemed a guarantee of security for her child | I |
| And when Achilles grew up | J |
| and all Thessaly said how beautiful he was | K |
| Thetis remembered the god's words | L |
| But one day some elders came in with the news | M |
| that Achilles had been killed at Troy | N |
| Thetis tore her purple robes | O |
| pulled off rings bracelets | P |
| flung them to the ground | Q |
| And in her grief remembering that wedding scene | R |
| she asked what the wise Apollo was up to | S |
| where was this poet who spouts | T |
| so eloquently at banquets where was this prophet | U |
| when they killed her son in his prime | V |
| And the elders answered that Apollo himself | W |
| had gone down to Troy | N |
| and with the Trojans had killed her son | D |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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