Rope-Jumping

-The maids were hanged to death.
-The maids were killed using ropes, which correlates with the title of the poem, the Rope-Jumping Rhyme.
-In addition, rope jumping was a leisure activity for women, so it can be said that the maids were killed
by their innocence.
"What could I do? Lamentation wouldn't bring my lovely girls back to life. Dead is dead, I told myself. I'll say prayers and perform sacrifices for their souls. But I'll
have to do it in secret, or Odysseus will suspect me,