Achilles In Orcus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSH TUVWXYZXLA2XB2XC2D2X E2F2XKG2| From thy translucent waves great Thetis rise | A |
| Mother divine hear and take back the gift | B |
| Thou gavest me of valor and renown | C |
| And then seek Zeus but not with loosened zone | D |
| For dalliance entreat him to restore | E |
| Me Achilles to the earth to the black earth | F |
| The nourisher of men not these pale shades | G |
| Whose shapes have learned the presage of thy doom | H |
| They flit between me and the wind swept plain | I |
| Of Troy the banners over Ilion's walls | J |
| The zenith of my prowess and my fate | K |
| Give me again the breath of life not death | L |
| Would I could tarry in the timbered tent | M |
| As when I wept Patroclus when by night | N |
| Old Priam crept kissing my knees with tears | O |
| For Hector's corse the hero I laid low | P |
| My panoply was like the gleam of fire | Q |
| When in the dust I dragged him at my wheels | R |
| My heart was iron he despoiled my friend | S |
| Cast on these borders of eternal gloom | H |
| Now comes Odysseus with his wandering crew | T |
| He pours libations in the deep dug trench | U |
| While airy forms in multitudes press near | V |
| And listen to the echoes of my praise | W |
| His consolation vain he hails me Prince | X |
| Vain is his speech No man before thy time | Y |
| Achilles lived more honored here thou art | Z |
| Supreme the ruler in these dread abodes | X |
| Speak not so easily to me of death | L |
| Great Odysseus Rather would I be | A2 |
| The meanest hind and bring the bleating lambs | X |
| From down the grassy hills or with a goad | B2 |
| To prod the hungry swine in beechen woods | X |
| Than over the departed to bear sway | C2 |
| Then from the clouds to note the warning cry | D2 |
| Of the harsh crane to see the Pleiads rise | X |
| The vine and fig tree shoot the olive bud | E2 |
| To hear the chirping swallows in the dawn | F2 |
| The thieving cuckoo laughing in the leaves | X |
| So may Achilles pass his palace gate | K |
| And later heroes strike Achilles' lyre | G2 |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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