Lovely White Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIIJKLMNAOPNQ PNRNSATA| He went inside the cafe where they used to sit together | A |
| It was here three months ago that his friend told him | B |
| 'We're completely broke so hard up the two of us | C |
| that we're stuck with the cheapest places | D |
| I can't go around with you any more it's no use hiding the fact | E |
| I've got to tell you somebody else is after me ' | F |
| The 'somebody else' had promised him two suits some silk handkerchiefs | G |
| He himself to get his friend back | H |
| went through hell rounding up twenty pounds | I |
| His friend came back to him for the twenty pounds | I |
| but along with that for their old intimacy | J |
| their old love for the deep feeling between them | K |
| The 'somebody else' was a liar a real bum | L |
| he'd ordered only one suit for his friend | M |
| and that under pressure after much begging | N |
| But now he doesn't want the suits any longer | A |
| he doesn't want the silk handkerchiefs at all | O |
| or twenty pounds or twenty piastres even | P |
| Sunday they buried him at ten in the morning | N |
| Sunday they buried him almost a week ago | Q |
| He laid flowers on his cheap coffin | P |
| lovely white flowers very much in keeping | N |
| with his beauty his twenty two years | R |
| When he went to the cafe that evening | N |
| he happened to have some vital business there | S |
| to that same cafe where they used to go together | A |
| it was a knife in his heart | T |
| that dead cafe where they used to go together | A |
Constantine P. Cavafy
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