In Memory Of M.b. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKLMNOPQRSDHere 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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