Paris And Diomedes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCADE CCCCFGDEHIC| Iliad B XI V | A |
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| So he with a clear shout of laughter | B |
| Forth of his ambush leapt and he vaunted him uttering thiswise | C |
| 'Hit thou art not in vain flew the shaft how by rights it had pierced thee | A |
| Into the undermost gut therewith to have rived thee of life breath | D |
| Following that had the Trojans plucked a new breath from their direst | E |
| They all frighted of thee as the goats bleat in flight from a lion ' | - |
| Then unto him untroubled made answer stout Diomedes | C |
| 'Bow puller jiber thy bow for thy glorying spyer at virgins | C |
| If that thou dared'st face me here out in the open with weapons | C |
| Nothing then would avail thee thy bow and thy thick shot of arrows | C |
| Now thou plumest thee vainly because of a graze of my footsole | F |
| Reck I as were that stroke from a woman or some pettish infant | G |
| Aye flies blunted the dart of the man that's emasculate noughtworth | D |
| Otherwise hits forth flying from me and but strikes it the slightest | E |
| My keen shaft and it numbers a man of the dead fallen straightway | H |
| Torn troth then are the cheeks of the wife of that man fallen slaughtered | I |
| Orphans his babes full surely he reddens the earth with his blood drops | C |
| Rotting round him the birds more numerous they than the women ' | - |
George Meredith
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