O Had I Known That Thus It Happens... Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DGHG EEIE| O 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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