Music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE DBDD DFDA GAHA IAJB DJDJ DJJJ DBJB| The block of flats loomed towerlike | A |
| Two sweating athletes human telpher | B |
| Were carrying up narrow stairs | C |
| As though a bell onto a belfry | B |
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| As to a stony tableland | D |
| The tables of the law with caution | E |
| A huge and heavy concert grand | D |
| Above the city's restless ocean | E |
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| At last it stands on solid ground | D |
| While deep below the din and clatter | B |
| Are damped as though the town were drowned | D |
| Sunk to the bottom of a legend | D |
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| The tenant of the topmost flat | D |
| Looks down on earth over the railings | F |
| As if he held it in his hand | D |
| Its lawful ruler never failing | A |
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| Back in the drawing room he starts | G |
| To play not someone else's music | A |
| But his own thought a new chorale | H |
| The stir of leaves Hosannas booming | A |
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| Improvisations sweep and peal | I |
| Bring night flames fire barrels rolling | A |
| Trees under downpour rumbling wheels | J |
| Life of the streets fate of the lonely | B |
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| Thus Chopin would at night instead | D |
| Of the outgrown naive and artless | J |
| Write down on the black fretwork stand | D |
| His soaring dream his new departures | J |
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| Or overtaking in their flight | D |
| The world by many generations | J |
| Valkyries shake the city roofs | J |
| By thunderous reverberations | J |
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| Or through the lovers' tragic fate | D |
| Amidst infernal crash and thunder | B |
| Tchaikovsky harrowed us to tears | J |
| And rent the concert hall asunder | B |
Boris Pasternak
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william glynne hughes: I love this poem, very much in Boris Pasternaks simplified verse.
I can see the seen and I can hear the music.
To be decided whether Scriabin is included.
Boris Pasternak is one of my favourite Russian Poets.
Sometimes I listen to his voice and the music he composed.
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