About These Poems Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKL MNMN OPOQ| On 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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