The Shield Of Achilles Poem Rhyme Scheme

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She looked over his shoulder	A
For vines and olive trees	B
Marble well governed cities	B
And ships upon untamed seas	B
But there on the shining metal	C
His hands had put instead	D
An artificial wilderness	E
And a sky like lead	D
	-
A plain without a feature bare and brown	F
No blade of grass no sign of neighborhood	G
Nothing to eat and nowhere to sit down	F
Yet congregated on its blankness stood	G
An unintelligible multitude	H
A million eyes a million boots in line	I
Without expression waiting for a sign	I
	-
Out of the air a voice without a face	J
Proved by statistics that some cause was just	K
In tones as dry and level as the place	J
No one was cheered and nothing was discussed	K
Column by column in a cloud of dust	K
They marched away enduring a belief	L
Whose logic brought them somewhere else to grief	L
	-
She looked over his shoulder	A
For ritual pieties	B
White flower garlanded heifers	M
Libation and sacrifice	N
But there on the shining metal	C
Where the altar should have been	O
She saw by his flickering forge light	P
Quite another scene	Q
	-
Barbed wire enclosed an arbitrary spot	R
Where bored officials lounged one cracked a joke	S
And sentries sweated for the day was hot	R
A crowd of ordinary decent folk	S
Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke	S
As three pale figures were led forth and bound	T
To three posts driven upright in the ground	T
	-
The mass and majesty of this world all	U
That carries weight and always weighs the same	V
Lay in the hands of others they were small	U
And could not hope for help and no help came	V
What their foes like to do was done their shame	V
Was all the worst could wish they lost their pride	W
And died as men before their bodies died	W
	-
She looked over his shoulder	A
For athletes at their games	X
Men and women in a dance	Y
Moving their sweet limbs	Z
Quick quick to music	A2
But there on the shining shield	B2
His hands had set no dancing floor	C2
But a weed choked field	B2
	-
A ragged urchin aimless and alone	D2
Loitered about that vacancy a bird	E2
Flew up to safety from his well aimed stone	D2
That girls are raped that two boys knife a third	E2
Were axioms to him who'd never heard	E2
Of any world where promises were kept	F2
Or one could weep because another wept	F2
	-
The thin lipped armorer	C2
Hephaestos hobbled away	G2
Thetis of the shining breasts	H2
Cried out in dismay	G2
At what the god had wrought	I2
To please her son the strong	J2
Iron hearted man slaying Achilles	B
Who would not live long	J2

W. H. Auden

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