The Eumenides Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDDBCB| Think you we slept within the Delphic bower | A |
| What time our victim sought Apollo's grace | B |
| Nay drawn into ourselves in that deep place | B |
| Where good and evil meet we bode our hour | A |
| For not inexorable is our power | A |
| And we are hunted of the prey we chase | B |
| Soonest gain ground on them that flee apace | B |
| And draw temerity from hearts that cower | A |
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| Shuddering we gather in the house of ruth | C |
| And on the fearful turn a face of fear | D |
| But they to whom the ways of doom are clear | D |
| Not vainly named us the Eumenides | B |
| Our feet are faithful in the paths of truth | C |
| And in the constant heart we house at peace | B |
Edith Wharton
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