Specimen Of Translation From The Ajax Of Sophocles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEFGE HHIIJJKKLMNNOOPKKQQR RKKSTUUVVP| O had he first been swept away | A |
| Through air by wild winds tossed | B |
| Or sunk from Heaven's ethereal ray | A |
| To Pluto's dreary coast | C |
| Who trained the Grecians to the field | D |
| Taught them the sword the spear to wield | D |
| And steeled the gentle mind | E |
| Hence toil gives birth to toil again | F |
| Hence carnage stains the ensanguined plain | G |
| For he destroyed mankind | E |
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| Nor the brow with chaplets bound | H |
| Breathing balmy odours round | H |
| Nor the social glow of soul | I |
| Kindling o er the generous bowl | I |
| Nor the dulcet strain that rings | J |
| Jocund from the sounding strings | J |
| Nor endearing love s delight | K |
| Which with rapture fills the night | K |
| Me will he permit to prove | L |
| He alas hath murdered love | M |
| But neglected here I lie | N |
| Open to the inclement sky | N |
| And my rough and matted hair | O |
| Drinks the dews of night's moist air | O |
| Memorials sad of Troy | P |
| Yet till now when pale affright | K |
| Rolled her hideous form through night | K |
| Great in arms thy shield to oppose | Q |
| Ajax at his rampire rose | Q |
| And my terror was no more | R |
| Now the hero I deplore | R |
| To the gloomy god consigned | K |
| Now what joy can touch the mind | K |
| O that on the pine clad brow | S |
| Darkening o er the sea below | T |
| Where the cliffs of Sunium rise | U |
| Rocky bulwarks to the skies | U |
| I were placed with sweet address | V |
| Sacred Athens would I bless | V |
| And feel a social joy | P |
James Clerk Maxwell
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