To Anna Akhmatova Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C B D E F G H I H J H C K C L M N O F P Q P H R S R T U C U| I think I can call on words | A |
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| that will last you are there | B |
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| But if I can t no matter | C |
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| I ll persist I won t care | B |
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| I hear the muttering of wet roofs | D |
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| pale eclogues from stones and kerb | E |
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| From the opening lines that city | F |
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| is alive in each sound each word | G |
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| You can t leave town though it s spring | H |
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| and your customers won t wait | I |
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| Dawn glows by lamplight sewing | H |
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| with unbowed back eyes wet | J |
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| Breathing the calm of far off Ladoga | H |
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| stumbling towards the water | C |
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| There s no relief from such trips | K |
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| The shallows smell mustier darker | C |
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| The wind dances it s a walnut shell | L |
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| a glitter the warm wind blows | M |
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| branches and stars lights and views | N |
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| as the seamstress watches the flow | O |
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| Eyesight can be sharp differently | F |
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| form be precise in varying ways | P |
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| but a solvent of acid power s | Q |
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| out there under the white night s blaze | P |
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| That s how I see your face and look | H |
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| Not that pillar of salt in mind | R |
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| in which five years ago you fixed | S |
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| our fears of looking behind | R |
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| From your first verses where grains | T |
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| of clear speech hardened to the last | U |
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| your eye the spark that shakes the wire | C |
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| makes all things quiver with the past | U |
Boris Pasternak
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