Antaeus: [a Fragment] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBBBBBDEFGH| So neck to stubborn neck and obstinate knee to knee | A |
| Wrestled those two and peerless Heracles | B |
| Could not prevail nor get at any vantage | C |
| So those huge hands that small had snapped great snakes | B |
| Let slip the writhing of Antaeus' wrists | B |
| Those hero's hands that wrenched the necks of bulls | B |
| Now fumbled round the slim Antaeus' limbs | B |
| Baffled Then anger swelled in Heracles | B |
| And terribly he grappled broader arms | B |
| And yet more firmly fixed his grasped feet | D |
| And up his back the muscles bulged and shone | E |
| Like climbing banks and domes of towering cloud | F |
| And they who watched that wrestling say he laughed | G |
| But no so loud as on Eurystheus of old | H |
Wilfred Owen
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