Homer And Laertes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFG HIJ KB ILMN OPD Q NRN S T DUNDV WVND XYNZA2 N YZB2C2D2NE2 F2EDNC G2DDDNH2NI2J2K2L2NM2 NVN2IN O2 K2NP2| Laertes Gods help thee and restore to thee thy sight | A |
| My good old guest I am more old than thou | B |
| Yet have outlived by many years my son | C |
| Odysseus and the chaste Penelope | D |
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| Homer Hither I come to visit thee and sing | E |
| His wanderings and his wisdom tho my voice | F |
| Be not the voice it was | G |
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| Laertes First let us taste | H |
| My old sound wine and break my bread less old | I |
| But old enough for teeth like thine and mine | J |
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| Homer So be it I sing best when such good cheer | K |
| Refreshes me and such a friend as thou | B |
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| Laertes Far hast thou wandered since we met and told | I |
| Strange stories Wert thou not afraid some God | L |
| Or Goddess should have siez'd upon thy ear | M |
| For talking what thou toldest of their pranks | N |
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| Homer They often came about me while I slept | O |
| And brought me dreams none painful none profane | P |
| They loved thy son and for his sake loved me | D |
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| Laertes Apollo I well know was much thy friend | Q |
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| Homer He did not treat me quite as Marsyas | N |
| Was treated by him lest he should I sang | R |
| His praise in my best chaunt for Gods love praise | N |
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| Laertes Have they enricht thee for I see thy cloak is ragged | S |
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| Homer Ragged cloak is poet's garb | T |
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| Laertes I have two better one of them for thee | D |
| Penelope who died five years ago | U |
| Spun it her husband wore it only once | N |
| And but one year the anniversary | D |
| Of their espousal | V |
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| Homer Wear it will I not | W |
| But I will hang it on the brightest nail | V |
| Of the first temple where Apollo sits | N |
| Golden hair'd in his glory | D |
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| Laertes So thou shalt | X |
| If so it please thee yet we first will quaff | Y |
| The gift of Bakkos for methinks his gifts | N |
| Are quite as welcome to the sons of song | Z |
| And cheer them oftener | A2 |
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| Girl enters | N |
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| Maiden come thou nigh | Y |
| And sit thee down and thou shalt hear a song | Z |
| After a while which Gods may listen to | B2 |
| But place the flask upon the board and wait | C2 |
| Until the stranger hath allaid his thirst | D2 |
| For poets grasshoppers and nightingales | N |
| Sing cheerily but when the throat is moist | E2 |
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| Homer I sang to maidens in my prime again | F2 |
| But not before the morrow will I sing | E |
| Let me repose this noontide since in sooth | D |
| Wine a sweet remedy for weariness | N |
| Helps to uplift its burden | C |
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| Laertes Lie then down | G2 |
| Along you mat bestrown with rosemary | D |
| And Agatha do thou bring speedily | D |
| The two large ewers and fill brimfull the bath | D |
| Capacious that of brass Penelope's | N |
| Own bath wherein she laught to see her boy | H2 |
| Paddle like cygnet with its broad black oars | N |
| Nor shunn'd the chilly water he threw up | I2 |
| Against her face he who grew soon so sage | J2 |
| Then do thou maiden from hot cauldron pour | K2 |
| Enough to make it soothing to the feet | L2 |
| After bring store of rushes and long leaves | N |
| Of cane sweet smelling from the inland bank | M2 |
| Of that famed river far across the sea | N |
| Opposite to our eyes invisible | V |
| Be sure thou smoothen with both hands his couch | N2 |
| Who has the power to make both young and old | I |
| Live throughout ages | N |
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| Agatha And look well throughout | O2 |
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| Laertes Aye aye and better than they lookt before | K2 |
| May thou rest well old wanderer Even the Gods | N |
| Repose the Sun himself sinks down to rest | P2 |
Walter Savage Landor
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