Account Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCD EF GHI JKLE MB E E| The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes | A |
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| Some would be devoted to acting against consciousness | B |
| Like the flight of a moth which had it known | C |
| Would have tended nevertheless toward the candle's flame | D |
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| Others would deal with ways to silence anxiety | E |
| The little whisper which though it is a warning is ignored | F |
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| I would deal separately with satisfaction and pride | G |
| The time when I was among their adherents | H |
| Who strut victoriously unsuspecting | I |
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| But all of them would have one subject desire | J |
| If only my own but no not at all alas | K |
| I was driven because I wanted to be like others | L |
| I was afraid of what was wild and indecent in me | E |
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| The history of my stupidity will not be written | M |
| For one thing it's late And the truth is laborious | B |
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| Berkeley | E |
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| Trans Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky | E |
Czeslaw Milosz
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