Oh Terrible, Beloved! A Poet's Loving Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGHG IGIG JJFJ AKAK JLJM| Oh terrible beloved A poet's loving | A |
| Is a restless god's passionate rage | B |
| And chaos out into the world comes creeping | A |
| As in the ancient fossil age | B |
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| His eyes weep him mist by the ton | C |
| Enveloped in tears he is mammoth like | D |
| Out of fashion He knows it must not be done | C |
| Ages have passed he does not know why | E |
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| He sees wedding parties all around | F |
| Drunken unions celebrated unaware | G |
| Common frogspawn found in every pond | H |
| Ritually adorned as precious caviare | G |
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| Like some Watteau pearl how cleverly | I |
| A snuffbox embraces all life's matter | G |
| And vengeance is wreaked on him probably | I |
| Because where they distort and flatter | G |
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| Where simpering comfort lies and fawns | J |
| Where they rub idle shoulders crawl like drones | J |
| He will raise your sister from the ground | F |
| Use her like a bacchante from the Grecian urns | J |
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| And pour into his kiss the Andes' melting | A |
| And morning in the steppe under the sway | K |
| Of dusted stars as night's pallid bleating | A |
| Bustles about the village on its way | K |
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| And the botanical vestry's dense blackness | J |
| And all the ravine's age old breath | L |
| Waft over the ennui of the stuffed mattress | J |
| And the forest's ancient chaos spurts forth | M |
Boris Pasternak
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