Cassandra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACAACDCCEFEEFGFFG HGGHIHHIJIIJ| Of all the luckless women ever born | A |
| Or ever to be born here on our earth | B |
| Most pitied be Cassandra from her birth | B |
| Condemned to woes unearned by her Forlorn | A |
| She early read great Ilium's doom and tried | C |
| Clear eyed clear voiced her countrymen to warn | A |
| But she Apollo's passion in high scorn | A |
| Had once repelled and of his injured pride | C |
| The God for her had bred this punishment | D |
| That good or bad all things she prophesied | C |
| Though true as truth should ever be decried | C |
| And flouted by the people As she went | E |
| Far from old Priam's gates among the crowd | F |
| To save her country was her heart intent | E |
| Pure fearless on an holy errand bent | E |
| They called her mad who was a Princess proud | F |
| Alas the City falls Beware the horse | G |
| Woe woe the Greeks Ah why was she endowed | F |
| With this sad gift Able to pierce the cloud | F |
| That veils the future in its wasting course | G |
| She could not stop the storm Bitter the pain | H |
| When those she loved and trusted weak resource | G |
| Her prophecies believed not when the force | G |
| Of all her pleading spent itself in vain | H |
| Poor Maid She knew no greater agony | I |
| When dragged a slave in Agamemnon's train | H |
| And though she fell by Clytemnestra slain | H |
| She smiled on Death who eased her misery | I |
| For oh what grief to one of faithful heart | J |
| It is to know the evils that must be | I |
| Helpless their doom to make the imperilled see | I |
| Unskilled to shield them from the fatal dart | J |
Helen Leah Reed
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