Feasts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GAGA HAHII drink the gall of skies in autumn tuberoses' | A |
Sweet bitterness in your betrayals burning stream | B |
I drink the gall of nights of crowded parties' noises | A |
Of sobbing virgin verse and of a throbbing dream | B |
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We fiends of studious fight a battle everlasting | C |
Against our daily bread can't stand the sober mood | D |
The troubled wind of nights is merely a toastmaster | E |
Whose toasts as like as not will do no one much good | F |
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Heredity and death are our guests at table | G |
A quiet dawn will paint bright red the tops of trees | A |
An anapaest like mice will on the bread plate scrabble | G |
And Cinderella will rush in to change her dress | A |
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The floors have all been swept and everything is dainty | H |
And like a child's sweet kiss breathes quietly my verse | A |
And Cinderella flees by cab on days of plenty | H |
And on shanks' pony when the last small coin is lost | I |
Boris Pasternak
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