To Any Army Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABA CAA DEF GGH IJK ALA MNO LPTo any army wife in Sardis | A |
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Some say a cavalry corps | A |
some infantry some again | B |
will maintain that the swift oars | A |
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of our fleet are the finest | C |
sight on dark earth but I say | A |
that whatever one loves is | A |
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This is easily proved did | D |
not Helen she who had scanned | E |
the flower of the world's manhood | F |
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choose as first among men one | G |
who laid Troy's honor in ruin | G |
warped to his will forgetting | H |
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love due her own blood her own | I |
child she wandered far with him | J |
So Anactoria although you | K |
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being far away forget us | A |
the dear sound of your footstep | L |
and light glancing in your eyes | A |
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would move me more than glitter | M |
of Lydian horse or armored | N |
tread of mainland infantry | O |
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Sappho | L |
tr Barnard | P |
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