Stravinsky's Three Pieces Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIEJKGJJLMNGOP QRRSSTDTOUVVVWVXYVYV ZA2HO A B2B2YAVEC2V A D2VVEVB2B2E2GAB2GAB2 YY VY Y Y F2YB2VYVAB2G2GG V| First Movement | A |
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| Thin voiced nasal pipes | B |
| Drawing sound out and out | C |
| Until it is a screeching thread | D |
| Sharp and cutting sharp and cutting | E |
| It hurts | F |
| Whee e e | G |
| Bump Bump Tong ti bump | H |
| There are drums here | I |
| Banging | E |
| And wooden shoes beating the round grey stones | J |
| Of the market place | K |
| Whee e e | G |
| Sabots slapping the worn old stones | J |
| And a shaking and cracking of dancing bones | J |
| Clumsy and hard they are | L |
| And uneven | M |
| Losing half a beat | N |
| Because the stones are slippery | G |
| Bump e ty tong Whee e e Tong | O |
| The thin Spring leaves | P |
| Shake to the banging of shoes | Q |
| Shoes beat slap | R |
| Shuffle rap | R |
| And the nasal pipes squeal with their pigs' voices | S |
| Little pigs' voices | S |
| Weaving among the dancers | T |
| A fine white thread | D |
| Linking up the dancers | T |
| Bang Bump Tong | O |
| Petticoats | U |
| Stockings | V |
| Sabots | V |
| Delirium flapping its thigh bones | V |
| Red blue yellow | W |
| Drunkenness steaming in colours | V |
| Red yellow blue | X |
| Colours and flesh weaving together | Y |
| In and out with the dance | V |
| Coarse stuffs and hot flesh weaving together | Y |
| Pigs' cries white and tenuous | V |
| White and painful | Z |
| White and | A2 |
| Bump | H |
| Tong | O |
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| Second Movement | A |
| - | |
| Pale violin music whiffs across the moon | B2 |
| A pale smoke of violin music blows over the moon | B2 |
| Cherry petals fall and flutter | Y |
| And the white Pierrot | A |
| Wreathed in the smoke of the violins | V |
| Splashed with cherry petals falling falling | E |
| Claws a grave for himself in the fresh earth | C2 |
| With his finger nails | V |
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| Third Movement | A |
| - | |
| An organ growls in the heavy roof groins of a church | D2 |
| It wheezes and coughs | V |
| The nave is blue with incense | V |
| Writhing twisting | E |
| Snaking over the heads of the chanting priests | V |
| Requiem aeternam dona ei Domine' | B2 |
| The priests whine their bastard Latin | B2 |
| And the censers swing and click | E2 |
| The priests walk endlessly | G |
| Round and round | A |
| Droning their Latin | B2 |
| Off the key | G |
| The organ crashes out in a flaring chord | A |
| And the priests hitch their chant up half a tone | B2 |
| Dies illa dies irae | Y |
| Calamitatis et miseriae | Y |
| Dies magna et amara valde ' | - |
| A wind rattles the leaded windows | V |
| The little pear shaped candle flames leap and flutter | Y |
| Dies illa dies irae ' | - |
| The swaying smoke drifts over the altar | Y |
| Calamitatis et miseriae ' | - |
| The shuffling priests sprinkle holy water | Y |
| Dies magna et amara valde ' | - |
| And there is a stark stillness in the midst of them | F2 |
| Stretched upon a bier | Y |
| His ears are stone to the organ | B2 |
| His eyes are flint to the candles | V |
| His body is ice to the water | Y |
| Chant priests | V |
| Whine shuffle genuflect | A |
| He will always be as rigid as he is now | B2 |
| Until he crumbles away in a dust heap | G2 |
| Lacrymosa dies illa | G |
| Qua resurget ex favilla | G |
| Judicandus homo reus ' | - |
| Above the grey pillars the roof is in darkness | V |
Amy Lowell
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