To Any Army Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABA CAA DEF GGH IJK ALA MNO LP| To 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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