Cassandra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBC A DEEDE A FGGFG C HIIHI C JKKJK C LMMLN C OPPOQ C RSSRS O FGGFG O IOOIO O TUUTU O VEEVE O COOCO C OWWOW C XOOXO C GOOGO C OMMON C OCCOC O BCCBC| I | A |
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| Captive on a foreign shore | B |
| Far from Ilion's hoary wave | C |
| Agamemnon's bridal slave | C |
| Speaks Futurity no more | B |
| Death is busy with her grave | C |
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| II | A |
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| Thick as water bursts remote | D |
| Round her ears the alien din | E |
| While her little sullen chin | E |
| Fills the hollows of her throat | D |
| Silent lie her slaughter'd kin | E |
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| III | A |
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| Once to many a pealing shriek | F |
| Lo from Ilion's topmost tower | G |
| Ilion's fierce prophetic flower | G |
| Cried the coming of the Greek | F |
| Black in Hades sits the hour | G |
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| IV | C |
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| Eyeing phantoms of the Past | H |
| Folded like a prophet's scroll | I |
| In the deep's long shoreward roll | I |
| Here she sees the anchor cast | H |
| Backward moves her sunless soul | I |
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| V | C |
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| Chieftains brethren of her joy | J |
| Shades the white light in their eyes | K |
| Slanting to her lips arise | K |
| Crowding quick the plains of Troy | J |
| Now they tell her not she lies | K |
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| VI | C |
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| O the bliss upon the plains | L |
| Where the joining heroes clashed | M |
| Shield and spear and unabashed | M |
| Challenged with hot chariot reins | L |
| Gods they glimmer ocean washed | N |
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| VII | C |
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| Alien voices round the ships | O |
| Thick as water shouting Home | P |
| Argives pale as midnight foam | P |
| Wax before her awful lips | O |
| White as stars that front the gloom | Q |
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| VIII | C |
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| Like a torch flame that by day | R |
| Up the daylight twists and pale | S |
| Catches air in leaps that fail | S |
| Crushed by the inveterate ray | R |
| Through her shines the Ten Years' Tale | S |
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| IX | O |
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| Once to many a pealing shriek | F |
| Lo from Ilion's topmost tower | G |
| Ilion's fierce prophetic flower | G |
| Cried the coming of the Greek | F |
| Black in Hades sits the hour | G |
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| X | O |
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| Still upon her sunless soul | I |
| Gleams the narrow hidden space | O |
| Forward where her fiery race | O |
| Falters on its ashen goal | I |
| Still the Future strikes her face | O |
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| XI | O |
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| See toward the conqueror's car | T |
| Step the purple Queen whose hate | U |
| Wraps red armed her royal mate | U |
| With his Asian tempest star | T |
| Now Cassandra views her Fate | U |
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| XII | O |
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| King of men the blinded host | V |
| Shout she lifts her brooding chin | E |
| Glad along the joyous din | E |
| Smiles the grand majestic ghost | V |
| Clytemnestra leads him in | E |
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| XIII | O |
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| Lo their smoky limbs aloof | C |
| Shadowing heaven and the seas | O |
| Fates and Furies tangling Threes | O |
| Tear and mix above the roof | C |
| Fates and fierce Eumenides | O |
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| XIV | C |
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| Is the prophetess with rods | O |
| Beaten that she writhes in air | W |
| With the Gods who never spare | W |
| Wrestling with the unsparing Gods | O |
| Lone her body struggles there | W |
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| XV | C |
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| Like the snaky torch flame white | X |
| Levelled as aloft it twists | O |
| She her soaring arms and wrists | O |
| Drooping struggles with the light | X |
| Helios bright above all mists | O |
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| XVI | C |
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| In his orb she sees the tower | G |
| Dusk against its flaming rims | O |
| Where of old her wretched limbs | O |
| Twisted with the stolen power | G |
| Ilium all the lustre dims | O |
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| XVII | C |
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| O the bliss upon the plains | O |
| Where the joining heroes clashed | M |
| Shield and spear and unabashed | M |
| Challenged with hot chariot reins | O |
| Gods they glimmer ocean washed | N |
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| XVIII | C |
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| Thrice the Sun god's name she calls | O |
| Shrieks the deed that shames the sky | C |
| Like a fountain leaping high | C |
| Falling as a fountain falls | O |
| Lo the blazing wheels go by | C |
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| XIX | O |
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| Captive on a foreign shore | B |
| Far from Ilion's hoary wave | C |
| Agamemnon's bridal slave | C |
| Speaks Futurity no more | B |
| Death is busy with her grave | C |
George Meredith
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