Marshalling Of The Achaians Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDEFFFGGHFFIFFJKHL CMNCI| Iliad B II V | A |
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| Like as a terrible fire feeds fast on a forest enormous | B |
| Up on a mountain height and the blaze of it radiates round far | C |
| So on the bright blest arms of the host in their march did the splendour | C |
| Gleam wide round through the circle of air right up to the sky vault | D |
| They now as when swarm thick in the air multitudinous winged flocks | E |
| Be it of geese or of cranes or the long necked troops of the wild swans | F |
| Off that Asian mead by the flow of the waters of Kaistros | F |
| Hither and yon fly they and rejoicing in pride of their pinions | F |
| Clamour shaped to their ranks and the mead all about them resoundeth | G |
| So those numerous tribes from their ships and their shelterings poured forth | G |
| On that plain of Scamander and horrible rumbled beneath them | H |
| Earth to the quick paced feet of the men and the tramp of the horse hooves | F |
| Stopped they then on the fair flower'd field of Scamander their thousands | F |
| Many as leaves and the blossoms born of the flowerful season | I |
| Even as countless hot pressed flies in their multitudes traverse | F |
| Clouds of them under some herdsman's wonning where then are the milk pails | F |
| Also full of their milk in the bountiful season of spring time | J |
| Even so thickly the long haired sons of Achaia the plain held | K |
| Prompt for the dash at the Trojan host with the passion to crush them | H |
| Those likewise as the goatherds eyeing their vast flocks of goats know | L |
| Easily one from the other when all get mixed o'er the pasture | C |
| So did the chieftains rank them here there in their places for onslaught | M |
| Hard on the push of the fray and among them King Agamemnon | N |
| He for his eyes and his head as when Zeus glows glad in his thunder | C |
| He with the girdle of Ares he with the breast of Poseidon | I |
George Meredith
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