Parting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FBGB HIJI KLMN ONPN EQRI STET UVWV XYNN NNZN QBA2B| A man is standing in the hall | A |
| His house not recognizing | B |
| Her sudden leaving was a flight | C |
| Herself maybe surprising | B |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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