Craft Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DGHG FIFI DFJF| When having finished I shall move my armchair | A |
| The page will gasp awakened from the strain | B |
| Delirious she is half asleep at present | C |
| Obedient to suspense and to the rain | B |
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| The heaviness of burnt out ships has numbed her | D |
| Prostrated weighted down her senseless form | E |
| You cannot dupe this one by false pretences | F |
| It is the poet who will keep her warm | E |
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| I told her at an hour its secret shudder | D |
| Vouchsafed by fancy when the winter will | G |
| Light up green screeching ice fed up with waiting | H |
| Behind an office worker's window sill | G |
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| And clocks in banks and other public places | F |
| While drinking in the snow and outside's dark | I |
| Will suddenly jump up and strike their faces | F |
| Crossed by the clockhands at the 'seven' mark | I |
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| At such a deep at such a fateful hour | D |
| I made the page wake up and take her chance | F |
| To put on hood and scarf and venture out to | J |
| Descendants strangers shaking off her trance | F |
Boris Pasternak
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