Lessons Of English Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFE GBHI BGBJ IKLM| When Desdemona sang a ditty | A |
| In her last hours among the living | B |
| It wasn't love that she lamented | C |
| And not her star she mourned a willow | D |
| When Desdemona started singing | B |
| With tears near choking off her voice | E |
| Her evil demon for her evil day | F |
| Stored up of weeping rills a choice | E |
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| And when Ophelia sang a ballad | G |
| In her last hours among the living | B |
| All dryness of her soul was carried | H |
| Aloft by gusts of wind like cinders | I |
| - | |
| The day Ophelia started singing | B |
| By bitterness of daydreams jaded | G |
| What trophies did she clutch when sinking | B |
| A bunch of buttercups and daisies | J |
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| Their shoulders stripped of passion's tatters | I |
| They took their hearts a quake with fear | K |
| The Universe's chilly baptism | L |
| To stun their loving forms with spheres | M |
Boris Pasternak
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