The Chorus Of Old Men In “Ægeus” Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKL MNJOJJPQRSTU VWJXYZA2B2C2B D2E2F2MG2H2I2J2JK2| Ye gods that have a home beyond the world | A |
| Ye that have eyes for all man's agony | B |
| Ye that have seen this woe that we have seen | C |
| Look with a just regard | D |
| And with an even grace | E |
| Here on the shattered corpse of a shattered king | F |
| Here on a suffering world where men grow old | G |
| And wander like sad shadows till at last | H |
| Out of the flare of life | I |
| Out of the whirl of years | J |
| Into the mist they go | K |
| Into the mist of death | L |
| - | |
| O shades of you that loved him long before | M |
| The cruel threads of that black sail were spun | N |
| May loyal arms and ancient welcomings | J |
| Receive him once again | O |
| Who now no longer moves | J |
| Here in this flickering dance of changing days | J |
| Where a battle is lost and won for a withered wreath | P |
| And the black master Death is over all | Q |
| To chill with his approach | R |
| To level with his touch | S |
| The reigning strength of youth | T |
| The fluttered heart of age | U |
| - | |
| Woe for the fateful day when Delphi's word was lost | V |
| Woe for the loveless prince of thra's line | W |
| Woe for a father's tears and the curse of a king's release | J |
| Woe for the wings of pride and the shafts of doom | X |
| And thou the saddest wind | Y |
| That ever blew from Crete | Z |
| Sing the fell tidings back to that thrice unhappy ship | A2 |
| Sing to the western flame | B2 |
| Sing to the dying foam | C2 |
| A dirge for the sundered years and a dirge for the years to be | B |
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| Better his end had been as the end of a cloudless day | D2 |
| Bright by the word of Zeus with a golden star | E2 |
| Wrought of a golden fame and flung to the central sky | F2 |
| To gleam on a stormless tomb for evermore | M |
| Whether or not there fell | G2 |
| To the touch of an alien hand | H2 |
| The sheen of his purple robe and the shine of his diadem | I2 |
| Better his end had been | J2 |
| To die as an old man dies | J |
| But the fates are ever the fates and a crown is ever a crown | K2 |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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