Parting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FBGB HIJI KLMN ONPN EQRI STET UVWV XYNN NNZN QBA2BA man is standing in the hall | A |
His house not recognizing | B |
Her sudden leaving was a flight | C |
Herself maybe surprising | B |
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The chaos reigning in the room | D |
He does not try to master | E |
His tears and headache hide in gloom | D |
The extent of his disaster | E |
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His ears are ringing all day long | F |
As though he has been drinking | B |
And why is it that all the time | G |
Of waves he keeps on thinking | B |
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When frosty window panes blank out | H |
The world of light and motion | I |
Despair and grief are doubly like | J |
The desert of the ocean | I |
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She was as dear to him as close | K |
In all her ways and features | L |
As is the seashore to the wave | M |
The ocean to the beaches | N |
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As over rushes after storm | O |
The swell of water surges | N |
Into the deepness of his soul | P |
Her memory submerges | N |
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In years of strife in times which were | E |
Unthinkable to live in | Q |
Upon a wave of destiny | R |
To him she had been driven | I |
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Through countless obstacles and past | S |
All dangers never ended | T |
The wave had carried carried her | E |
Till close to him she'd landed | T |
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And now so suddenly she'd left | U |
What power overrode them | V |
The parting will destroy them both | W |
The grief bone deep corrode them | V |
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He looks around him On the floor | X |
In frantic haste she'd scattered | Y |
The contents of the cupboard scraps | N |
Of stuff her sewing patterns | N |
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He wanders through deserted rooms | N |
And tidies up for hours | N |
Till darkness falls he folds away | Z |
Her things into the drawers | N |
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And pricks his finger on a pin | Q |
In her unfinished sewing | B |
And sees the whole of her again | A2 |
And silent tears come flowing | B |
Boris Pasternak
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