In The Wood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLM NOGP EQER| Blurred by a lilac heat the meadows | A |
| in the wood cathedral shadows swirled | B |
| What on earth was left for them to kiss So | C |
| like wax soft in the fingers theirs the world | B |
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| There s a dream you do not sleep you only | D |
| dream you long for sleep someone s dozing | E |
| two black suns are beating under eyelids | F |
| burning eyelashes while he s slumbering | E |
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| Sunbeams play Iridescent beetles flow by | G |
| dragon flies glass skims over his cheek | H |
| With tiny scintillations the wood s alive | I |
| like those the clockmakers tweezers seek | H |
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| It seems he slept to the tick of figures | J |
| while in acid amber ether over his head | K |
| the hands of a carefully tested clock quiver | L |
| regulated precisely by tremors of heat | M |
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| They calibrate they shake the pines | N |
| scatter the shadow exhaust and pierce | O |
| the darkness of timber raised up high | G |
| in the day s fatigue on the blue clock face | P |
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| It seems a primal happiness was setting | E |
| it seems the wood was sunk in sunlit dream | Q |
| Happy folk don t spend time clock watching | E |
| but this pair were only sleeping it seems | R |
Boris Pasternak
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