Unknown Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEFG HBIJ KBBJ LJMN GJG OPQR JRRR RJJR JBSR TUVB JWJS BXRY| Above the restaurants in the evenings | A |
| The sultry air is wild and still | B |
| And the decaying breath of spring | C |
| Drives drunken shouting | C |
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| Above the dusty distant lanes | D |
| The boredom of summer homes | E |
| The baker's gold sign barely shines | F |
| And a child's crying rings out | G |
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| Each night beyond the crossing gates | H |
| With bowler hats tipped rakishly | B |
| The practiced wits stroll with the ladies | I |
| Among the drainage ditches | J |
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| Out on the lake oarlocks creak | K |
| And a woman starts to squeal | B |
| While up in the sky inured to it all | B |
| The moon's disk senselessly leers | J |
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| Each night my solitary friend | L |
| Is reflected in my glass | J |
| Made meek and reeling like myself | M |
| By the mysterious astringent liquid | N |
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| And drowsy lackeys lounge about | G |
| Beside the adjacent tables | J |
| While drunks with rabbit eyes cry out | G |
| 'In vino veritas ' | - |
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| And each night at a certain hour | O |
| Or am I only dreaming it | P |
| A girl's figure swathed in silk | Q |
| Moves across the misty window | R |
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| And slowly passing among the drunks | J |
| Always alone and unescorted | R |
| Wafting a breath of perfume and mist | R |
| She takes a table by the window | R |
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| And an air of ancient legend | R |
| Wreaths her resilient silks | J |
| Her hat with its funereal plumes | J |
| And her slender ringed hand | R |
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| And entranced by this strange nearness | J |
| I look through her dark veil | B |
| And see an enchanted shore | S |
| And a horizon enchanted | R |
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| Deep secrets are entrusted to me | T |
| Someone's sun is in my care | U |
| And at every turn astringent wine | V |
| Pierces my soul | B |
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| And drooping ostrich plumes | J |
| Waver in my brain | W |
| And fathomless blue eyes | J |
| Bloom on the distant shore | S |
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| A treasure lies in my soul | B |
| And the key belongs to me alone | X |
| You are correct you drunken fiend | R |
| I know it wine brings truth | Y |
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
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