Agamemnon In The Fight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDECFC GGHGGGGC| Iliad B XI V | A |
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| These then he left and away where ranks were now clashing the thickest | B |
| Onward rushed and with him rushed all of the bright greaved Achaians | C |
| Foot then footmen slew that were flying from direful compulsion | D |
| Horse at the horsemen up from off under them mounted the dust cloud | E |
| Up off the plain raised up cloud thick by the thundering horse hooves | C |
| Hewed with the sword's sharp edge and so meanwhile Lord Agamemnon | F |
| Followed chasing and slaughtering aye on urgeing the Argives | C |
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| Now as when fire voracious catches the unclipped woodland | G |
| This way bears it and that the great whirl of the wind and the scrubwood | G |
| Stretches uptorn flung forward alength by the fire's fury rageing | H |
| So beneath Atreides Agamemnon heads of the scattered | G |
| Trojans fell and in numbers amany the horses neck stiffened | G |
| Rattled their vacant cars down the roadway gaps of the war field | G |
| Missing the blameless charioteers but for these they were outstretched | G |
| Flat upon earth far dearer to vultures than to their home mates | C |
George Meredith
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