A Magic Mountain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHI JIGKLG BMNO PQRSGT UVGWBQMXB BBMYBMZA2BIH| I don t remember exactly when Budberg died it was either two years | A |
| ago or three | B |
| The same with Chen Whether last year or the one before | C |
| Soon after our arrival Budberg gently pensive | D |
| Said that in the beginning it is hard to get accustomed | E |
| For here there is no spring or summer no winter or fall | F |
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| I kept dreaming of snow and birch forests | G |
| Where so little changes you hardly notice how time goes by | H |
| This is you will see a magic mountain | I |
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| Budberg a familiar name in my childhood | J |
| They were prominent in our region | I |
| This Russian family descendants of German Balts | G |
| I read none of his works too specialized | K |
| And Chen I have heard was an exquisite poet | L |
| Which I must take on faith for he wrote in Chinese | G |
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| Sultry Octobers cool Julys trees blossom in February | B |
| Here the nuptial flight of hummingbirds does not forecast spring | M |
| Only the faithful maple sheds its leaves every year | N |
| For no reason its ancestors simply learned it that way | O |
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| I sensed Budberg was right and I rebelled | P |
| So I won t have power won t save the world | Q |
| Fame will pass me by no tiara no crown | R |
| Did I then train myself myself the Unique | S |
| To compose stanzas for gulls and sea haze | G |
| To listen to the foghorns blaring down below | T |
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| Until it passed What passed Life | U |
| Now I am not ashamed of my defeat | V |
| One murky island with its barking seals | G |
| Or a parched desert is enough | W |
| To make us say yes oui si | B |
| 'Even asleep we partake in the becoming of the world | Q |
| Endurance comes only from enduring | M |
| With a flick of the wrist I fashioned an invisible rope | X |
| And climbed it and it held me | B |
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| What a procession Quelles d lices | B |
| What caps and hooded gowns | B |
| Most respected Professor Budberg | M |
| Most distinguished Professor Chen | Y |
| Wrong Honorable Professor Milosz | B |
| Who wrote poems in some unheard of tongue | M |
| Who will count them anyway And here sunlight | Z |
| So that the flames of their tall candles fade | A2 |
| And how many generations of hummingbirds keep them company | B |
| As they walk on Across the magic mountain | I |
| And the fog from the ocean is cool for once again it is July | H |
Czeslaw Milosz
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