Tortoise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEA AFGHAGIA AHABJAKA AJAALBMB| On the stony spurs of Pierius | A |
| The Muses conducted the first round dance | A |
| So like bees blind lyrists might give us Ionic honey | B |
| A great chill blew | C |
| From the prominent virginal brow | D |
| So the tender graves of the Archipelago | E |
| Might be uncovered for distant grandsons | A |
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| Spring rushes to trample the meadows of Hellas | A |
| Sappho puts on a dappled boot | F |
| Cicadas click like hammers forging out a ring | G |
| As in the little song | H |
| A stout carpenter built a tall house | A |
| They strangled all the hens for a wedding | G |
| An inept cobbler stretched | I |
| All five ox hides for shoes | A |
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| The sluggish lyre tortoise | A |
| Toeless barely creeps along | H |
| Sets herself down in the sun of Epirus | A |
| Quietly warming her golden belly | B |
| Who will caress someone like her | J |
| Who will turn her over while she sleeps | A |
| She awaits Terpander in her dream | K |
| Sensing the sudden sweep of dry fingers | A |
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| A cold sprinkle waters the oaks | A |
| The bareheaded grasses murmur | J |
| The honeysuckle smells to the joy of the bees | A |
| O where are you sacred islands | A |
| Where they do not eat broken bread | L |
| Where there is only wine milk and honey | B |
| Creaking toil does not darken the sky and | M |
| The wheel turns easily | B |
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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