A Song On The End Of The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDED AFGHIJK BLMNOPQN RDPDD| On the day the world ends | A |
| A bee circles a clover | B |
| A fisherman mends a glimmering net | C |
| Happy porpoises jump in the sea | D |
| By the rainspout young sparrows are playing | E |
| And the snake is gold skinned as it should always be | D |
| - | |
| On the day the world ends | A |
| Women walk through the fields under their umbrellas | F |
| A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn | G |
| Vegetable peddlers shout in the street | H |
| And a yellow sailed boat comes nearer the island | I |
| The voice of a violin lasts in the air | J |
| And leads into a starry night | K |
| - | |
| And those who expected lightning and thunder | B |
| Are disappointed | L |
| And those who expected signs and archangels' trumps | M |
| Do not believe it is happening now | N |
| As long as the sun and the moon are above | O |
| As long as the bumblebee visits a rose | P |
| As long as rosy infants are born | Q |
| No one believes it is happening now | N |
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| Only a white haired old man who would be a prophet | R |
| Yet is not a prophet for he's much too busy | D |
| Repeats while he binds his tomatoes | P |
| No other end of the world will there be | D |
| No other end of the world will there be | D |
Czeslaw Milosz
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