The Stranger Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFG CGHG IJKJ LMNO PMQO KGOG CRHR JGSG TUVU NWLW XJXJ OVJV| The restaurants on hot spring evenings | A |
| Lie under a dense and savage air | B |
| Foul drafts and hoots from dunken revelers | C |
| Contaminate the thoroughfare | B |
| Above the dusty lanes of suburbia | D |
| Above the tedium of bungalows | E |
| A pretzel sign begilds a bakery | F |
| And children screech fortissimo | G |
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| And every evening beyond the barriers | C |
| Gentlemen of practiced wit and charm | G |
| Go strolling beside the drainage ditches | H |
| A tilted derby and a lady at the arm | G |
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| The squeak of oarlocks comes over the lake water | I |
| A woman's shriek assaults the ear | J |
| While above in the sky inured to everything | K |
| The moon looks on with a mindless leer | J |
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| And every evening my one companion | L |
| Sits here reflected in my glass | M |
| Like me he has drunk of bitter mysteries | N |
| Like me he is broken dulled downcast | O |
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| The sleepy lackeys stand beside tables | P |
| Waiting for the night to pass | M |
| And tipplers with the eyes of rabbits | Q |
| Cry out quot In vino veritas quot | O |
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| And every evening or am I imagining | K |
| Exactly at the appointed time | G |
| A girl's slim figure silk raimented | O |
| Glides past the window's mist and grime | G |
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| And slowly passing throught the revelers | C |
| Unaccompanied always alone | R |
| Exuding mists and secret fragrances | H |
| She sits at the table that is her own | R |
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| Something ancient something legendary | J |
| Surrounds her presence in the room | G |
| Her narrow hand her silk her bracelets | S |
| Her hat the rings the ostrich plume | G |
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| Entranced by her presence near and enigmatic | T |
| I gaze through the dark of her lowered veil | U |
| And I behold an enchanted shoreline | V |
| And enchanted distances far and pale | U |
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| I am made a guardian of the higher mysteries | N |
| Someone's sun is entrusted to my control | W |
| Tart wine has pierced the last convolution | L |
| of my labyrinthine soul | W |
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| And now the drooping plumes of ostriches | X |
| Asway in my brain droop slowly lower | J |
| And two eyes limpid blue and fathomless | X |
| Are blooming on a distant shore | J |
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| Inside my soul a treasure is buried | O |
| The key is mine and only mine | V |
| How right you are you drunken monster | J |
| I know the truth is in the wine | V |
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
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