March Elegy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UGVWW| I have enough treasures from the past | A |
| to last me longer than I need or want | B |
| You know as well as I malevolent memory | C |
| won't let go of half of them | D |
| a modest church with its gold cupola | E |
| slightly askew a harsh chorus | F |
| of crows the whistle of a train | G |
| a birch tree haggard in a field | H |
| as if it had just been sprung from jail | I |
| a secret midnight conclave | J |
| of monumental Bible oaks | K |
| and a tiny rowboat that comes drifting out | L |
| of somebody's dreams slowly foundering | M |
| Winter has already loitered here | N |
| lightly powdering these fields | O |
| casting an impenetrable haze | P |
| that fills the world as far as the horizon | Q |
| I used to think that after we are gone | R |
| there's nothing simply nothing at all | S |
| Then who's that wandering by the porch | T |
| again and calling us by name | U |
| Whose face is pressed against the frosted pane | G |
| What hand out there is waving like a branch | V |
| By way of reply in that cobwebbed corner | W |
| a sunstruck tatter dances in the mirror | W |
Anna Akhmatova
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