Daedalus In Sicily Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIAJAFFKLIFMM NOM| All his life he was building something inventing something | A |
| Now for a Cretan queen an artificial heifer | B |
| so as to cuckold the king Then a labyrinth the time for | C |
| the king himself to hide from bewildered glances | D |
| an unbearable offspring Or a flying contraption when | E |
| the king figured himself so busy with new commissions | F |
| The son of that journey perished falling into the sea | G |
| like Phaeton who they say also spurned his father s | H |
| orders Here in Sicily stiff on its scorching sand | I |
| sits a very old man capable of transporting | A |
| himself through the air if robbed of other means of passage | J |
| All his life he was building something inventing something | A |
| All his life from those clever constructions m from those inventions | F |
| he had to flee As though inventions | F |
| and constructions are anxious to rid themselves of their blueprints | K |
| like children ashamed of their parents Presumably that s the fear | L |
| of replication Waves are running onto the sand | I |
| behind shine the tusks of the local mountains | F |
| Yet he had already invented when he was young the seesaw | M |
| using the strong resemblance between motion and stasis | M |
| The old man bends down ties to his brittle ankle | N |
| so as not to get lost a lengthy thread | O |
| straightens up with a grunt and heads out for Hades | M |
Joseph Brodsky
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