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Glory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFGHBFE EIEF JKLM FALBAN OBCCPF FECEQEQCFE

Pindar poet of the victories fitted namesA
And legends into verses for the chorus to singB
Names recalled now only in the poems of PindarC
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O nearly unpronounceable immortalsD
In the dash Oionos was championE
Oionos Likmynios's son who came from MideaF
In wrestling Echemos won the nameG
Of his home city Tegea proclaimed to the crowdsH
Doryklos of Tiryns won the prize in boxingB
And the record for a four horse team was setF
By Samos from Mantinea Halirothios's sonE
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And Pindar poet of the Olympian and IsthmianE
And Pythian games wrote also of the boundlessI
And forgetful savannas of time What is someoneE
The chorus sing in a victory ode What is a nobodyF
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Creatures of a day they chant in answer CreaturesJ
Of a day So where is the godgiven glory Pindar saysK
Settles on mortals Bright as gold among the substancesL
Say the chorus paramount as water among the elementsM
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Not in the victory itself petty or greatF
Of rich young Greeks contending in gamesA
Not in the poetry itself with its forgotten dancesL
And Pindar spinning among tiresome or stirringB
Myths and genealogies the chanted namesA
Of cities and invoked gods and dignitariesN
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Striving O nearly unpronounceable athletesO
To animate the air with dancing feet raisingB
A golden pollen of dust a pervasive blurC
Of seedlets in the sunlight whirling beyond mereC
Victory or applause or performanceP
As victory is beyond defeatF
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The one who threw the javelin furthestF
Sang the chorus chanting Pindar's incantationE
Against envy and oblivion was PhrastorC
And when Nikeus grunting whirled the stoneE
Into the air and it flew past the marksQ
Of all the competitors Nikeus's countrymenE
Shouted his name after it NikeusQ
Nikeus and the syllables so say the lines PindarC
Composed for the sweating chorus to chant radiatedF
For a spell like the silvery mirror of the moonE

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