Aeschylos And Sophocles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEBAF BGHIJKL MNKBO BBPBQRSBAB HTUN| Sophocles Thou goest then and leavest none behind Worthy to rival thee | A |
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| Aeschylos Nay say not so | B |
| Whose is the hand that now is pressing mine | C |
| A hand I may not ever press again | D |
| What glorious forms hath it brought boldly forth | E |
| From Pluto's realm The blind old Oedipos | B |
| Was led on one side by Antigone | A |
| Sophocles propt the other | F |
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| Sophocles Sophocles | B |
| Sooth'd not Prometheus chaind upon his rock | G |
| Keeping the vultures and the Gods away | H |
| Sophocles is not greater than the chief | I |
| Who conquered Ilion nor could he revenge | J |
| His murder or stamp everlasting brand | K |
| Upon the brow of that adulterous wife | L |
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| Aeschylos Live and do more | M |
| Thine is the Lemnian ile | N |
| And thou hast placed the arrows in the hand | K |
| Of Philoctetes hast assuaged his wounds | B |
| And given his aid without which Greece had fail'd | O |
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| Sophocles I did indeed drive off the pest of flies | B |
| We also have our pest of them which buz | B |
| About our honey darken it and sting | P |
| We laugh at them for under hands like ours | B |
| Without the wing that Philoctetes shook | Q |
| One single feather crushes the whole swarm | R |
| I must be grave | S |
| Hath Sicily such charms | B |
| Above our Athens Many charms hath she | A |
| But she hath kings Accursed be the race | B |
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| Aeschylos But where kings honor better men than they | H |
| Let kings be honored too | T |
| The laurel crown | U |
| Surmounts the golden wear it and farewell | N |
Walter Savage Landor
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