Odysseus To Telemachus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGA AHAIGAJAAKI FILAMNOAA

My dear TelemachusA
The Trojan WarB
is over now I don't recall who won itC
The Greeks no doubt for only they would leaveD
so many dead so far from their own homelandE
But still my homeward way has proved too longF
While we were wasting time there old PoseidonG
it almost seems stretched and extended spaceA
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I don't know where I am or what this placeA
can be It would appear some filthy islandH
with bushes buildings and great grunting pigsA
A garden choked with weeds some queen or otherI
Grass and huge stones Telemachus my sonG
To a wanderer the faces of all islandsA
resemble one another And the mindJ
trips numbering waves eyes sore from sea horizonsA
run and the flesh of water stuffs the earsA
I can't remember how the war came outK
even how old you are I can't rememberI
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Grow up then my Telemachus grow strongF
Only the gods know if we'll see each otherI
again You've long since ceased to be that babeL
before whom I reined in the plowing bullocksA
Had it not been for Palamedes' trickM
we two would still be living in one householdN
But maybe he was right away from meO
you are quite safe from all Oedipal passionsA
and your dreams my Telemachus are blamelessA

Joseph Brodsky



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