About These Poems Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKL MNMN OPOQOn winter pavements I will pound | A |
Them down with glistening glass and sun | B |
Will let the ceiling hear their sound | A |
Damp corners read them one by one | B |
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The attic will repeat my themes | C |
And bow to winter with my lines | D |
And send leapfrogging to the beams | C |
Bad luck and oddities and signs | D |
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Snow will not monthly sweep and fall | E |
And cover up beginnings ends | F |
One day I'll suddenly recall | E |
The sun exists Will see new trends | F |
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Will see the world is not the same | G |
Then Christmas jackdaw like will blink | H |
And with a frosty day explain | I |
What we my love and I should think | H |
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The window halves I'll throw apart | J |
In muffler from the cold to hide | K |
And call to children in the yard | L |
'What century is it outside ' | - |
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Who trod a trail towards the door | M |
The hole blocked up with sleet and snow | N |
The while I smoked with Byron or | M |
Was having drinks with Edgar Poe | N |
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While known in Darial or hell | O |
Or armoury as friend I dipped | P |
Like Lermontov's deep thrill as well | O |
My life in vermouth as my lips | Q |
Boris Pasternak
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