The Sixth Book Of Homer's Iliads Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFGHIIJJKKLLMNO OPPQRSSTUVVVVVVVVVVW XVVAYZZA2A2VVSSB2B2V VOVA | |
To this great Hector said | B |
quot Be well assur'd wife all these things in my kind cares are weigh'd | C |
But what a shame and fear it is to think how Troy would scorn | D |
Both in her husbands and her wives whom long train'd gowns adorn | D |
That I should cowardly fly off The spirit I first did breathe | E |
Did never teach me that much less since the contempt of death | F |
Was settled in me and my mind knew what a worthy was | G |
Whose office is to lead in fight and give no danger pass | H |
Without improvement In this fire must Hector's trial shine | I |
Here must his country father friends be in him made divine | I |
And such a stormy day shall come in mind and soul I know | J |
When sacred Troy shall shed her towers for tears of overthrow | J |
When Priam all his birth and power shall in those tears be drown'd | K |
But neither Troy's posterity so much my soul doth wound | K |
Priam nor Hecuba herself nor all my brothers' woes | L |
Who though so many and so good must all be food for foes | L |
As thy sad state when some rude Greek shall lead thee weeping hence | M |
These free days clouded and a night of captive violence | N |
Loading thy temples out of which thine eyes must never see | O |
But spin the Greek wives' webs of task and their fetch water be | O |
To Argos from Messe quot i des or clear Hyperia's spring | P |
Which howsoever thou abhorr'st Fate's such a shrewish thing | P |
She will be mistress whose cursed hands when they shall crush out cries | Q |
From thy oppressions being beheld by other enemies | R |
Thus they will nourish thy extremes 'This dame was Hector's wife | S |
A man that at the wars of Troy did breathe the worthiest life | S |
Of all their army ' This again will rub thy fruitful wounds | T |
To miss the man that to thy bands could give such narrow bounds | U |
But that day shall not wound mine eyes the solid heap of night | V |
Shall interpose and stop mine ears against thy plaints and plight quot | V |
This said he reach'd to take his son who of his arms afraid | V |
And then the horse hair plume with which he was so overlaid | V |
Nodded so horribly he cling'd back to his nurse and cried | V |
Laughter affected his great sire who doff'd and laid aside | V |
His fearful helm that on the earth cast round about it light | V |
Then took and kiss'd his loving son and balancing his weight | V |
In dancing him those loving vows to living Jove he us'd | V |
And all the other bench of Gods quot O you that have infus'd | V |
Soul to this infant now set down this blessing on his star | W |
Let his renown be clear as mine equal his strength in war | X |
And make his reign so strong in Troy that years to come may yield | V |
His facts this fame when rich in spoils he leaves the conquer'd field | V |
Sown with his slaughters 'These high deeds exceed his father's worth ' | A |
And let this echo'd praise supply the comforts to come forth | Y |
Of his kind mother with my life quot This said th' heroic sire | Z |
Gave him his mother whose fair eyes fresh streams of love's salt fire | Z |
Billow'd on her soft cheeks to hear the last of Hector's speech | A2 |
In which his vows compris'd the sum of all he did beseech | A2 |
In her wish'd comfort So she took into her odorous breast | V |
Her husband's gift who mov'd to see her heart so much oppress'd | V |
He dried her tears and thus desir'd quot Afflict me not dear wife | S |
With these vain griefs He doth not live that can disjoin my life | S |
And this firm bosom but my fate and Fate whose wings can fly | B2 |
Noble ignoble Fate controls Once born the best must die | B2 |
Go home and set thy housewifery on these extremes of thought | V |
And drive war from them with thy maids keep them from doing nought | V |
These will be nothing leave the cares of war to men and me | O |
In whom of all the Ilion race they take their highest degree quot | V |
George Chapman
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