Here Is My Gift Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKLMNOPQRSD| Here is my gift not roses on your grave | A |
| not sticks of burning incense | B |
| You lived aloof maintaining to the end | C |
| your magnificent disdain | D |
| You drank wine and told the wittiest jokes | E |
| and suffocated inside stifling walls | F |
| Alone you let the terrible stranger in | G |
| and stayed with her alone | H |
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| Now you're gone and nobody says a word | I |
| about your troubled and exalted life | J |
| Only my voice like a flute will mourn | K |
| at your dumb funeral feast | L |
| Oh who would have dared believe that half crazed I | M |
| I sick with grief for the buried past | N |
| I smoldering on a slow fire | O |
| having lost everything and forgotten all | P |
| would be fated to commemorate a man | Q |
| so full of strength and will and bright inventions | R |
| who only yesterday it seems chatted with me | S |
| hiding the tremor of his mortal pain | D |
Anna Akhmatova
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