Odysseus To Telemachus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGA AHAIGAJAAKI FILAMNOAAMy dear Telemachus | A |
The Trojan War | B |
is over now I don't recall who won it | C |
The Greeks no doubt for only they would leave | D |
so many dead so far from their own homeland | E |
But still my homeward way has proved too long | F |
While we were wasting time there old Poseidon | G |
it almost seems stretched and extended space | A |
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I don't know where I am or what this place | A |
can be It would appear some filthy island | H |
with bushes buildings and great grunting pigs | A |
A garden choked with weeds some queen or other | I |
Grass and huge stones Telemachus my son | G |
To a wanderer the faces of all islands | A |
resemble one another And the mind | J |
trips numbering waves eyes sore from sea horizons | A |
run and the flesh of water stuffs the ears | A |
I can't remember how the war came out | K |
even how old you are I can't remember | I |
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Grow up then my Telemachus grow strong | F |
Only the gods know if we'll see each other | I |
again You've long since ceased to be that babe | L |
before whom I reined in the plowing bullocks | A |
Had it not been for Palamedes' trick | M |
we two would still be living in one household | N |
But maybe he was right away from me | O |
you are quite safe from all Oedipal passions | A |
and your dreams my Telemachus are blameless | A |
Joseph Brodsky
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