Campo Di Fiori Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEDF GHIJKLDD AMNOPQNR NSMGTDNU VDWDXYYK ANHNDZTA2 CEDGB2C2D2I AE2F2G2H2C2AI2

In Rome on the Campo di FioriA
Baskets of olives and lemonsB
Cobbles spattered with wineC
And the wreckage of flowersD
Vendors cover the trestlesD
With rose pink fishE
Armfuls of dark grapesD
Heaped on peach downF
-
On this same squareG
They burned Giordano BrunoH
Henchmen kindled the pyreI
Close pressed by the mobJ
Before the flames had diedK
The taverns were full againL
Baskets of olives and lemonsD
Again on the vendors' shouldersD
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I thought of the Campo dei FioriA
In Warsaw by the sky carouselM
One clear spring eveningN
To the strains of a carnival tuneO
The bright melody drownedP
The salvos from the ghetto wallQ
And couples were flyingN
High in the cloudless skyR
-
At times wind from the burningN
Would driff dark kites alongS
And riders on the carouselM
Caught petals in midairG
That same hot windT
Blew open the skirts of the girlsD
And the crowds were laughingN
On that beautiful Warsaw SundayU
-
Someone will read as moralV
That the people of Rome or WarsawD
Haggle laugh make loveW
As they pass by martyrs' pyresD
Someone else will readX
Of the passing of things humanY
Of the oblivionY
Born before the flames have diedK
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But that day I thought onlyA
Of the loneliness of the dyingN
Of how when GiordanoH
Climbed to his burningN
There were no wordsD
In any human tongueZ
To be left for mankindT
Mankind who live onA2
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Already they were back at their wineC
Or peddled their white starfishE
Baskets of olives and lemonsD
They had shouldered to the fairG
And he already distancedB2
As if centuries had passedC2
While they paused just a momentD2
For his flying in the fireI
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Those dying here the lonelyA
Forgotten by the worldE2
Our tongue becomes for themF2
The language of an ancient planetG2
Until when all is legendH2
And many years have passedC2
On a great Campo di FioriA
Rage will kindle at a poet's wordI2

Czeslaw Milosz



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