Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GHGH IBAB JKLK BMNO| My mournful soul you sorrowing | A |
| For all my friends around | B |
| You have become the burial vault | C |
| Of all those hounded down | D |
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| Devoting to their memory | E |
| A verse embalming them | F |
| In torment broken lovingly | E |
| Lamenting over them | F |
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| In this our mean and selfish time | G |
| For conscience and for quest | H |
| You stand a columbarium | G |
| To lay their souls to rest | H |
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| The sum of all their agonies | I |
| Has bowed you to the ground | B |
| You smell of dust of death's decay | A |
| Of morgue and burial mound | B |
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| My beggarly dejected soul | J |
| You heard and saw your fill | K |
| Remembered all and mixed it well | L |
| And ground it like a mill | K |
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| Continue pounding and compound | B |
| All that I witnessed here | M |
| To graveyard compost as you did | N |
| For almost forty years | O |
Boris Pasternak
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