To Eleonora Duse In "the Dead City" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDDCCDWere you a Greek when all the world was young | A |
Before the weary years that pass and pass | B |
Had scattered all the temples on the grass | B |
Before the moss to marble columns clung | A |
I think your snowy tunic must have hung | A |
As now your gown does wave on wave a mass | B |
Of woven water As within a glass | B |
I see your face when Homer's tales were sung | A |
Alcaeus kissed your mouth and found it sweet | C |
And Sappho's hand has lingered in your hand | D |
You half remember Lesbos as you stand | D |
Where all the times and countries mix and meet | C |
And lay your weight of beauty at our feet | C |
A garland gathered in a distant land | D |
Sara Teasdale
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Thea Wentzel: This poem is extraordinary, going back to Greek times so fluently. Sappho's writings still applies, after all the ages. Love is a constant in life, it is not changed as time goes by.
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