Confession Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFE GHIJ FKFL MFNF OPQR STUV WRCR EXYZ AA2AO| Life returned with a cause the way | A |
| Some strange chance once interrupted it | B |
| Just as on that distant summer day | A |
| I am standing in the same old street | C |
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| People are the same and people's worries | D |
| And the sunset's still a fireball | E |
| Just the way death's night once in a hurry | F |
| Nailed it to the ancient mansion's wall | E |
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| Women in the same cheap clothes attired | G |
| Are still wearing down their shoes at night | H |
| Afterwards against the roofing iron | I |
| They are by the garrets crucified | J |
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| Here is one of them She looks so weary | F |
| As she steps across the threshold and | K |
| Rising from the basement drab and dreary | F |
| Walks across the courtyard on a slant | L |
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| And again I'm ready with excuses | M |
| And again it's all the same to me | F |
| And the neighbour in the backyard pauses | N |
| Then goes out of sight and leaves us be | F |
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| Don't cry do not purse your lips up | O |
| They're puffy as it is dear | P |
| Mind you don't break the drying scab | Q |
| Of smouldering spring fever | R |
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| Your hand is on my breast Let go | S |
| We are like two live wires | T |
| If we aren't careful we'll be thrown | U |
| Together unawares | V |
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| The years will pass you'll marry yet | W |
| And you'll forget this squalor | R |
| To be a woman is a feat | C |
| To drive men mad that's valour | R |
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| And as for me I've been in thrall | E |
| For ages begged like alms | X |
| And worshipped the great miracle | Y |
| Of woman's neck back arms | Z |
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| Though bound tight at the end of day | A |
| By the anguished darkness' loop | A2 |
| I'm ever lured to get away | A |
| I long to break things up | O |
Boris Pasternak
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