Fragments - Lines 0173 - 0178 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF| Of all things it is poverty that most subdues a noble man | A |
| More even than hoary old age Kyrnos or fever | B |
| Indeed to avoid it one should even throw oneself into the sea's | C |
| Deep gulfs Kyrnos or off sheer cliffs | D |
| For the man subdued by poverty can neither say | E |
| Nor do anything because his tongue is tied | F |
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