And The City Stood In Its Brightness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDBE AFBGB AHIJA| And the city stood in its brightness when years later I returned | A |
| And life was running out Ruteboeuf's or Villon's | B |
| Descendants already born were dancing their dances | B |
| Women looked in their mirrors made from a new metal | C |
| What was it all for if I cannot speak | D |
| She stood above me head like the earth on its axis | B |
| My ashes were laid in a can under the bistro counter | E |
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| And the city stood in its brightness when years later I returned | A |
| To my home in the display case of a granite museum | F |
| Beside eyelash mascara alabaster vials and menstruation girdles of an Egyptian princess | B |
| There was only a sun forged out of gold plate | G |
| On darkening parquetry the creep of unhurried steps | B |
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| And the city stood in its brightness when years later I returned | A |
| My face covered with a coat though now no one was left | H |
| Of those who could have remembered my debts never paid | I |
| My shames not forever base deeds to be forgiven | J |
| And the city stood in its brightness when years later I returned | A |
Czeslaw Milosz
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