When I'd Reported To The Couple, Thus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCD EFE EGH IJI KI L| The Augsburger walks with Dante through the hell of the departed He addresses the inconsolable and reports to them that on earth some things have changed | A |
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| When I'd reported to the couple thus | B |
| That up there no one murders now for gain | C |
| Since no one owns a thing the faithless spouse | D |
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| Who'd beguiled that woman so improperly | E |
| Lifted his hand now tied to hers by chains | F |
| And looked at her and turned perplexed to me | E |
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| So no one steals if there's no property | E |
| I shook my head And as their hands just touched | G |
| I saw a blush suffuse the woman's cheeks | H |
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| He saw it too and cried She hasn't once | I |
| Shown so much since the day she was seduced | J |
| And murmuring Then there's no abstinence | I |
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| They moved off swiftly And the ties that fused | K |
| Them tight were of no weight or consequence | I |
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| TRANSLATED BY TOM KUHN | L |
Bertolt Brecht
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