Feast Of Victory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEF BGHGIJIJBKBK LMLMFMFMNONO KPKQMCMCMRMS BTBTUVUVMWMW GXGXHYHYZDZD A2NA2B2MMMMBC2BC2 PHPHD2E2D2E2F2XF2X RG2RG2MH2MH2BI2BI2 MJ2HJ2MBMBK2MK2M L2ML2M2BN2BN2BN2BN2 NO2NO2P2Q2P2Q2P2Q2P2 Q2 D2CD2CJMJMA2BA2BPriam's castle walls had sunk | A |
Troy in dust and ashes lay | B |
And each Greek with triumph drunk | A |
Richly laden with his prey | B |
Sat upon his ship's high prow | C |
On the Hellespontic strand | D |
Starting on his journey now | C |
Bound for Greece his own fair land | D |
Raise the glad exulting shout | E |
Toward the land that gave them birth | F |
Turn they now the ships about | E |
As they seek their native earth | F |
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And in rows all mournfully | B |
Sat the Trojan women there | G |
Beat their breasts in agony | H |
Pallid with dishevelled hair | G |
In the feast of joy so glad | I |
Mingled they the song of woe | J |
Weeping o'er their fortunes sad | I |
In their country's overthrow | J |
Land beloved oh fare thee well | B |
By our foreign masters led | K |
Far from home we're doomed to dwell | B |
Ah how happy are the dead | K |
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Soon the blood by Calchas spilt | L |
On the altar heavenward smokes | M |
Pallas by whom towns are built | L |
And destroyed the priest invokes | M |
Neptune too who all the earth | F |
With his billowy girdle laves | M |
Zeus who gives to terror birth | F |
Who the dreaded Aegis waves | M |
Now the weary fight is done | N |
Ne'er again to be renewed | O |
Time's wide circuit now is run | N |
And the mighty town subdued | O |
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Atreus' son the army's head | K |
Told the people's numbers o'er | P |
Whom he as their captain led | K |
To Scamander's vale of yore | Q |
Sorrow's black and heavy clouds | M |
Passed across the monarch's brow | C |
Of those vast and valiant crowds | M |
Oh how few were left him now | C |
Joyful songs let each one raise | M |
Who will see his home again | R |
In whose veins the life blood plays | M |
For alas not all remain | S |
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All who homeward wend their way | B |
Will not there find peace of mind | T |
On their household altars they | B |
Murder foul perchance may find | T |
Many fall by false friend's stroke | U |
Who in fight immortal proved | V |
So Ulysses warning spoke | U |
By Athene's spirit moved | V |
Happy he whose faithful spouse | M |
Guards his home with honor true | W |
Woman ofttimes breaks her vows | M |
Ever loves she what is new | W |
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And Atrides glories there | G |
In the prize he won in fight | X |
And around her body fair | G |
Twines his arms with fond delight | X |
Evil works must punished be | H |
Vengeance follows after crime | Y |
For Kronion's just decree | H |
Rules the heavenly courts sublime | Y |
Evil must in evil end | Z |
Zeus will on the impious band | D |
Woe for broken guest rights send | Z |
Weighing with impartial hand | D |
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It may well the glad befit | A2 |
Cried Olleus' valiant son | N |
To extol the Gods who sit | A2 |
On Olympus' lofty throne | B2 |
Fortune all her gifts supplies | M |
Blindly and no justice knows | M |
For Patroclus buried lies | M |
And Thersites homeward goes | M |
Since she blindly throws away | B |
Each lot in her wheel contained | C2 |
Let him shout with joy to day | B |
Who the prize of life has gained | C2 |
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Ay the wars the best devour | P |
Brother we will think of thee | H |
In the fight a very tower | P |
When we join in revelry | H |
When the Grecian ships were fired | D2 |
By thine arm was safety brought | E2 |
Yet the man by craft inspired | D2 |
Won the spoils thy valor sought | E2 |
Peace be to thine ashes blest | F2 |
Thou wert vanquished not in fight | X |
Anger 'tis destroys the best | F2 |
Ajax fell by Ajax' might | X |
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Neoptolemus poured then | R |
To his sire renowned the wine | G2 |
'Mongst the lots of earthly men | R |
Mighty father prize I thine | G2 |
Of the goods that life supplies | M |
Greatest far of all is fame | H2 |
Though to dust the body flies | M |
Yet still lives a noble name | H2 |
Valiant one thy glory's ray | B |
Will immortal be in song | I2 |
For though life may pass away | B |
To all time the dead belong | I2 |
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Since the voice of minstrelsy | M |
Speaks not of the vanquished man | J2 |
I will Hector's witness be | H |
Tydeus' noble son began | J2 |
Fighting bravely in defence | M |
Of his household gods he fell | B |
Great the victor's glory thence | M |
He in purpose did excel | B |
Battling for his altars dear | K2 |
Sank that rock no more to rise | M |
E'en the foemen will revere | K2 |
One whose honored name ne'er dies | M |
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Nestor joyous reveller old | L2 |
Who three generations saw | M |
Now the leaf crowned cup of gold | L2 |
Gave to weeping Hecuba | M2 |
Drain the goblet's draught so cool | B |
And forget each painful smart | N2 |
Bacchus' gifts are wonderful | B |
Balsam for a broken heart | N2 |
Drain the goblet's draught so cool | B |
And forget each painful smart | N2 |
Bacchus' gifts are wonderful | B |
Balsam for a broken heart | N2 |
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E'en to Niobe whom Heaven | N |
Loved in wrath to persecute | O2 |
Respite from her pangs was given | N |
Tasting of the corn's ripe fruit | O2 |
Whilst the thirsty lip we lave | P2 |
In the foaming living spring | Q2 |
Buried deep in Lethe's wave | P2 |
Lies all grief all sorrowing | Q2 |
Whilst the thirsty lip we lave | P2 |
In the foaming living spring | Q2 |
Swallowed up in Lethe's wave | P2 |
Is all grief all sorrowing | Q2 |
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And the Prophetess inspired | D2 |
By her God upstarted now | C |
Toward the smoke of homesteads fired | D2 |
Looking from the lofty prow | C |
Smoke is each thing here below | J |
Every worldly greatness dies | M |
As the vapory columns go | J |
None are fixed but Deities | M |
Cares behind the horseman sit | A2 |
Round about the vessel play | B |
Lest the morrow hinder it | A2 |
Let us therefore live to day | B |
Friedrich Schiller
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