Odysseus To Telemachus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGA AHAIGAJAAKI FILAMNOAA| My 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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