A Young Poet In His 24th Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFGH IJ KLMNOPQRSTHA| Brain work now as well as you can | A |
| A one sided passion is destroying him | B |
| He's in a maddening situation | C |
| Every day he kisses the face he worships | D |
| his hands are on those exquisite limbs | E |
| He's never loved before with this degree of passion | C |
| But the beautiful fulfillment of love | F |
| is lacking that fulfillment is lacking | G |
| which both of them must want with the same intensity | H |
| - | |
| They aren't equally given to the abnormal form of sensual pleasure | I |
| only he is completely possessed by it | J |
| - | |
| And so he's wearing himself out all on edge | K |
| Then to make things worse he's out of work | L |
| He manages somehow to borrow | M |
| a little here and there sometimes | N |
| almost begging for it and he just gets by | O |
| He kisses those adored lips excites himself | P |
| on that exquisite body though he now feels | Q |
| it only acquiesces And then | R |
| he drinks and smokes drinks and smokes | S |
| and he drags himself to the caf s all day long | T |
| drags the weariness consuming his beauty | H |
| Brain work now as well as you can | A |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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