Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG BHGH IJIB KLML NOPO QRQR| By water's edge quiet willows stand | A |
| And from the steep bank high noon flings | B |
| White fleecy clouds into the pond | C |
| As if they were a fisher's seines | B |
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| The firmament sinks like a net | D |
| A crowd of sunburnt bathers dive | E |
| With yells into the pond and head | F |
| For this elusive netlike sky | G |
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| Some women from the water rise | B |
| Under the scanty willows' lee | H |
| And stepping on the sand wring dry | G |
| Their bathing costumes hurriedly | H |
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| The coils of fabric twist and slide | I |
| Like water snakes and nimbly roll | J |
| As if the dripping garments hide | I |
| Beguiling serpents in their folds | B |
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| woman neither looks nor shape | K |
| Will nonplus me or make me gloat | L |
| You all of you are like a lump | M |
| In my excitement stricken throat | L |
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| You look as if hewn in the rough | N |
| A stray verse line dashed off ad lib | O |
| You make me think it is the truth | P |
| That you were made out of my rib | O |
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| And instantly you broke away | Q |
| From my embrace and moved apart | R |
| All fear confusion disarray | Q |
| And missing beats of a man's heart | R |
Boris Pasternak
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