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 grasp | A |
| The fundamental | B |
| The daily choice the daily task | C |
| The sentimental | B |
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| To plumb the essence of the past | D |
| The first foundations | E |
| The crux the roots the inmost hearts | F |
| The explanations | E |
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| And puzzling out the weave of fate | G |
| Events observer | H |
| To live feel love and meditate | G |
| And to discover | H |
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| Oh if my skill did but suffice | I |
| After a fashion | J |
| In eight lines I'd anatomize | I |
| The parts of passion | J |
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| I'd write of sins forbidden fruit | K |
| Of chance seized shadows | I |
| Of hasty flight and hot pursuit | K |
| Of palms of elbows | I |
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| Define its laws and origin | J |
| In terms judicial | B |
| Repeat the names it glories in | L |
| And the initials | I |
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| I'd sinews strain my verse to shape | M |
| Like a trim garden | J |
| The limes should blossom down the nape | M |
| A double cordon | J |
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| My verse should breathe the fresh clipped hedge | N |
| Roses and meadows | I |
| And mint and new mown hay and sedge | N |
| The thunder's bellows | I |
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| As Chopin once in his etudes | I |
| Miraculously conjured | O |
| Parks groves graves and solitudes | I |
| A living wonder | H |
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| The moment of achievement caught | P |
| Twixt sport and torment | Q |
| A singing bowstring shuddering taut | R |
| A stubborn bow bent | Q |
Boris Pasternak
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