Dido



Founder and Ruler of Carthage,
First at the bar, and Chair of the Law Association
President of the Business Alliance
Premier of the Year eight years running
Seventeen times on the cover of Newsweek
Lifetime member of Rotary and Big Sisters

(too bad what’s-his-name came into your life)

About this poem

Dido was the founder and ruler of Carthage. Aeneas got shipwrecked on her land, and they became lovers. Eventually Aeneas left to found his own city. Dido then committed suicide. More myth poems in "UnMythed", available for download (at not charge) at chriswind.net.

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Submitted by chriswind3 on November 22, 2023

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Scheme XXXXXX X
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 289
Words 50
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 1

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