Poet Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak

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In Everything I Seek To Grasp... Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGH IJIJ KIKI JBLI MJMJ NINI IOIH PQRQ

In everything I seek to graspA
The fundamentalB
The daily choice the daily taskC
The sentimentalB
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To plumb the essence of the pastD
The first foundationsE
The crux the roots the inmost heartsF
The explanationsE
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And puzzling out the weave of fateG
Events observerH
To live feel love and meditateG
And to discoverH
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Oh if my skill did but sufficeI
After a fashionJ
In eight lines I'd anatomizeI
The parts of passionJ
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I'd write of sins forbidden fruitK
Of chance seized shadowsI
Of hasty flight and hot pursuitK
Of palms of elbowsI
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Define its laws and originJ
In terms judicialB
Repeat the names it glories inL
And the initialsI
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I'd sinews strain my verse to shapeM
Like a trim gardenJ
The limes should blossom down the napeM
A double cordonJ
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My verse should breathe the fresh clipped hedgeN
Roses and meadowsI
And mint and new mown hay and sedgeN
The thunder's bellowsI
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As Chopin once in his etudesI
Miraculously conjuredO
Parks groves graves and solitudesI
A living wonderH
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The moment of achievement caughtP
Twixt sport and tormentQ
A singing bowstring shuddering tautR
A stubborn bow bentQ

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