Venice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EEFF GHIH JGKG LMNM OPQP| The clatter of a cloudy pane | A |
| Awoke me in the small hours | B |
| It hung in a gondola rank | C |
| And vacancy weighed on the oars | D |
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| The trident of hushed guitars | E |
| Was hanging like Scorpio s stars | E |
| Above a marine horizon | F |
| Untouched by the smoking sun | F |
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| In the domain of the zodiac | G |
| The chord was a lonely sound | H |
| Untroubled below by the trident | I |
| The port moved its mists around | H |
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| At some time the earth had split off | J |
| Capsized palaces gone to wrack | G |
| A fortress loomed up like a planet | K |
| Like a planet houses spun back | G |
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| And the secret of life without root | L |
| I understood as the day surfaced | M |
| My dreams and my eyes had more room | N |
| To grope on their own through the mist | M |
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| And like the foam of mad blossom | O |
| And like the foam of rabid lips | P |
| Among glimmering shadows broke loose | Q |
| The chord that knew no fingertips | P |
Boris Pasternak
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