The Anactoria Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGB HIHG GIJK JLHG| Some say thronging cavalry some say foot soldiers | A |
| others call a fleet the most beautiful of | B |
| sights the dark earth offers but I say it's what | C |
| ever you love best | D |
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| And it's easy to make this understood by | E |
| everyone for she who surpassed all human | F |
| kind in beauty Helen abandoning her | G |
| husband that best of | B |
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| men went sailing off to the shores of Troy and | H |
| never spent a thought on her child or loving | I |
| parents when the goddess seduced her wits and | H |
| left her to wander | G |
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| she forgot them all she could not remember | G |
| anything but longing and lightly straying | I |
| aside lost her way But that reminds me | J |
| now Anact oacute ria | K |
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| she's not here and I'd rather see her lovely | J |
| step her sparkling glance and her face than gaze on | L |
| all the troops in Lydia in their chariots and | H |
| glittering armor | G |
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