O Had I Known That Thus It Happens... Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DGHG EEIEO had I known that thus it happens | A |
When first I started that at will | B |
Your lines with blood in them destroy you | C |
Roll up into your throat and kill | B |
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My answer to this kind of joking | D |
Had been a most decisive 'no' | E |
So distant was the start so timid | F |
The first approach what could one know | E |
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But older age is Rome demanding | D |
From actors not a gaudy blend | G |
Of props and reading but in earnest | H |
A tragedy with tragic end | G |
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A slave is sent to the arena | E |
When feeling has produced a line | E |
Tnen breathing soil and fate take over | I |
And art has done and must resign | E |
Boris Pasternak
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