The Invective Of Achilles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBBCDCCEEBFCGECHE DE| Iliad B I V | A |
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| 'Heigh me brazen of front thou glutton for plunder how can one | B |
| Servant here to thy mandates heed thee among our Achaians | C |
| Either the mission hie on or stoutly do fight with the foemen | B |
| I not hither I fared on account of the spear armed Trojans | C |
| Pledged to the combat they unto me have in nowise a harm done | B |
| Never have they of a truth come lifting my horses or oxen | B |
| Never in deep soiled Phthia the nurser of heroes my harvests | C |
| Ravaged they for between us is numbered full many a darksome | D |
| Mountain ay therewith too the stretch of the windy sea waters | C |
| O hugely shameless thee did we follow to hearten thee justice | C |
| Pluck from the Dardans for him Menelaos thee too thou dog eyed | E |
| Whereof little thy thought is nought whatever thou reckest | E |
| Worse it is thou whose threat 'tis to ravish my prize from me portion | B |
| Won with much labour the which my gift from the sons of Achaia | F |
| Never in sooth have I known my prize equal thine when Achaians | C |
| Gave some flourishing populous Trojan town up to pillage | G |
| Nay sure mine were the hands did most in the storm of the combat | E |
| Yet when came peradventure share of the booty amongst us | C |
| Bigger to thee went the prize while I some small blessed thing bore | H |
| Off to the ships my share of reward for my toil in the bloodshed | E |
| So now go I to Phthia for better by much it beseems me | D |
| Homeward go with my beaked ships now and I hold not in prospect | E |
| I being outraged thou mayst gather here plunder and wealth store ' | - |
George Meredith
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