The Horses Of Achilles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGEEHDIJEKLMNOEP C| Iliad B XVII V | A |
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| So now the horses of Aiakides off wide of the war ground | B |
| Wept since first they were ware of their charioteer overthrown there | C |
| Cast down low in the whirl of the dust under man slaying Hector | D |
| Sooth meanwhile then did Automedon brave son of Diores | E |
| Oft on the one hand urge them with flicks of the swift whip and oft too | F |
| Coax entreatingly hurriedly whiles did he angrily threaten | G |
| Vainly for these would not to the ships to the Hellespont spacious | E |
| Backward turn nor be whipped to the battle among the Achaians | E |
| Nay as a pillar remains immovable fixed on the tombstone | H |
| Haply of some dead man or it may be a woman there under | D |
| Even like hard stood they there attached to the glorious war car | I |
| Earthward bowed with their heads and of them so lamenting incessant | J |
| Ran the hot teardrops downward on to the earth from their eyelids | E |
| Mourning their charioteer all their lustrous manes dusty clotted | K |
| Right side and left of the yoke ring tossed to the breadth of the yoke bow | L |
| Now when the issue of Kronos beheld that sorrow his head shook | M |
| Pitying them for their grief these words then he spake in his bosom | N |
| 'Why ye hapless gave we to Peleus you to a mortal | O |
| Master ye that are ageless both ye both of you deathless | E |
| Was it that ye among men most wretched should come to have heart grief | P |
| 'Tis most true than the race of these men is there wretcheder nowhere | C |
| Aught over earth's range found that is gifted with breath and has movement ' | - |
George Meredith
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