Yes, Atthis, You May Be Sure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB CDE FGB FHI JKB LME NOB| Yes Atthis you may be sure | A |
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| Even in Sardis | B |
| Anactoria will think often of us | B |
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| of the life we shared here when you seemed | C |
| the Goddess incarnate | D |
| to her and your singing pleased her best | E |
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| Now among Lydian women she in her | F |
| turn stands first as the red | G |
| fingered moon rising at sunset takes | B |
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| precedence over stars around her | F |
| her light spreads equally | H |
| on the salt sea and fields thick with bloom | I |
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| Delicious dew purs down to freshen | J |
| roses delicate thyme | K |
| and blossoming sweet clover she wanders | B |
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| aimlessly thinking of gentle | L |
| Atthis her heart hanging | M |
| heavy with longing in her little breast | E |
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| She shouts aloud Come we know it | N |
| thousand eared night repeats that cry | O |
| across the sea shining between us | B |
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