Thomas Trevelyan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFBGHIJKALMAA| Reading in Ovid the sorrowful story of Itys | A |
| Son of the love of Tereus and Procne slain | B |
| For the guilty passion of Tereus for Philomela | C |
| The flesh of him served to Tereus by Procne | B |
| And the wrath of Tereus the murderess pursuing | D |
| Till the gods made Philomela a nightingale | E |
| Lute of the rising moon and Procne a swallow | F |
| Oh livers and artists of Hellas centuries gone | B |
| Sealing in little thuribles dreams and wisdom | G |
| Incense beyond all price forever fragrant | H |
| A breath whereof makes clear the eyes of the soul | I |
| How I inhaled its sweetness here in Spoon River | J |
| The thurible opening when I had lived and learned | K |
| How all of us kill the children of love and all of us | A |
| Knowing not what we do devour their flesh | L |
| And all of us change to singers although it be | M |
| But once in our lives or change alas to swallows | A |
| To twitter amid cold winds and falling leaves | A |
Edgar Lee Masters
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