The Sixth Book Of Homer's Iliads Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFGHIIJJKKLLMNO OPPQRSSTUVVVVVVVVVVW XVVAYZZA2A2VVSSB2B2V VOV

A
To this great Hector saidB
quot Be well assur'd wife all these things in my kind cares are weigh'dC
But what a shame and fear it is to think how Troy would scornD
Both in her husbands and her wives whom long train'd gowns adornD
That I should cowardly fly off The spirit I first did breatheE
Did never teach me that much less since the contempt of deathF
Was settled in me and my mind knew what a worthy wasG
Whose office is to lead in fight and give no danger passH
Without improvement In this fire must Hector's trial shineI
Here must his country father friends be in him made divineI
And such a stormy day shall come in mind and soul I knowJ
When sacred Troy shall shed her towers for tears of overthrowJ
When Priam all his birth and power shall in those tears be drown'dK
But neither Troy's posterity so much my soul doth woundK
Priam nor Hecuba herself nor all my brothers' woesL
Who though so many and so good must all be food for foesL
As thy sad state when some rude Greek shall lead thee weeping henceM
These free days clouded and a night of captive violenceN
Loading thy temples out of which thine eyes must never seeO
But spin the Greek wives' webs of task and their fetch water beO
To Argos from Messe quot i des or clear Hyperia's springP
Which howsoever thou abhorr'st Fate's such a shrewish thingP
She will be mistress whose cursed hands when they shall crush out criesQ
From thy oppressions being beheld by other enemiesR
Thus they will nourish thy extremes 'This dame was Hector's wifeS
A man that at the wars of Troy did breathe the worthiest lifeS
Of all their army ' This again will rub thy fruitful woundsT
To miss the man that to thy bands could give such narrow boundsU
But that day shall not wound mine eyes the solid heap of nightV
Shall interpose and stop mine ears against thy plaints and plight quotV
This said he reach'd to take his son who of his arms afraidV
And then the horse hair plume with which he was so overlaidV
Nodded so horribly he cling'd back to his nurse and criedV
Laughter affected his great sire who doff'd and laid asideV
His fearful helm that on the earth cast round about it lightV
Then took and kiss'd his loving son and balancing his weightV
In dancing him those loving vows to living Jove he us'dV
And all the other bench of Gods quot O you that have infus'dV
Soul to this infant now set down this blessing on his starW
Let his renown be clear as mine equal his strength in warX
And make his reign so strong in Troy that years to come may yieldV
His facts this fame when rich in spoils he leaves the conquer'd fieldV
Sown with his slaughters 'These high deeds exceed his father's worth 'A
And let this echo'd praise supply the comforts to come forthY
Of his kind mother with my life quot This said th' heroic sireZ
Gave him his mother whose fair eyes fresh streams of love's salt fireZ
Billow'd on her soft cheeks to hear the last of Hector's speechA2
In which his vows compris'd the sum of all he did beseechA2
In her wish'd comfort So she took into her odorous breastV
Her husband's gift who mov'd to see her heart so much oppress'dV
He dried her tears and thus desir'd quot Afflict me not dear wifeS
With these vain griefs He doth not live that can disjoin my lifeS
And this firm bosom but my fate and Fate whose wings can flyB2
Noble ignoble Fate controls Once born the best must dieB2
Go home and set thy housewifery on these extremes of thoughtV
And drive war from them with thy maids keep them from doing noughtV
These will be nothing leave the cares of war to men and meO
In whom of all the Ilion race they take their highest degree quotV

George Chapman



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