Menelaus And Helen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBDEEF GHIIHG A JKLJJLLJ MNONPP| I | A |
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| Hot through Troy's ruin Menelaus broke | B |
| To Priam's palace sword in hand to sate | C |
| On that adulterous whore a ten years' hate | C |
| And a king's honour Through red death and smoke | B |
| And cries and then by quieter ways he strode | D |
| Till the still innermost chamber fronted him | E |
| He swung his sword and crashed into the dim | E |
| Luxurious bower flaming like a god | F |
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| High sat white Helen lonely and serene | G |
| He had not remembered that she was so fair | H |
| And that her neck curved down in such a way | I |
| And he felt tired He flung the sword away | I |
| And kissed her feet and knelt before her there | H |
| The perfect Knight before the perfect Queen | G |
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| II | A |
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| So far the poet How should he behold | J |
| That journey home the long connubial years | K |
| He does not tell you how white Helen bears | L |
| Child on legitimate child becomes a scold | J |
| Haggard with virtue Menelaus bold | J |
| Waxed garrulous and sacked a hundred Troys | L |
| 'Twixt noon and supper And her golden voice | L |
| Got shrill as he grew deafer And both were old | J |
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| Often he wonders why on earth he went | M |
| Troyward or why poor Paris ever came | N |
| Oft she weeps gummy eyed and impotent | O |
| Her dry shanks twitch at Paris' mumbled name | N |
| So Menelaus nagged and Helen cried | P |
| And Paris slept on by Scamander side | P |
Rupert Brooke
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