Conversation With Jeanne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHI JKLMCNO P QRSTUVWXYZA2 B2C2D2E2F2G2| Let us not talk philosophy drop it Jeanne | A |
| So many words so much paper who can stand it | B |
| I told you the truth about my distancing myself | C |
| I've stopped worrying about my misshapen life | D |
| It was no better and no worse than the usual human tragedies | E |
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| For over thirty years we have been waging our dispute | F |
| As we do now on the island under the skies of the tropics | G |
| We flee a downpour in an instant the bright sun again | H |
| And I grow dumb dazzled by the emerald essence of the leaves | I |
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| We submerge in foam at the line of the surf | J |
| We swim far to where the horizon is a tangle of banana bush | K |
| With little windmills of palms | L |
| And I am under accusation That I am not up to my oeuvre | M |
| That I do not demand enough from myself | C |
| As I could have learned from Karl Jaspers | N |
| That my scorn for the opinions of this age grows slack | O |
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| I roll on a wave and look at white clouds | P |
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| You are right Jeanne I don't know how to care about the salvation of my soul | Q |
| Some are called others manage as well as they can | R |
| I accept it what has befallen me is just | S |
| I don't pretend to the dignity of a wise old age | T |
| Untranslatable into words I chose my home in what is now | U |
| In things of this world which exist and for that reason delight us | V |
| Nakedness of women on the beach coppery cones of their breasts | W |
| Hibiscus alamanda a red lily devouring | X |
| With my eyes lips tongue the guava juice the juice of la prune de Cyth re | Y |
| Rum with ice and syrup lianas orchids | Z |
| In a rain forest where trees stand on the stilts of their roots | A2 |
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| Death you say mine and yours closer and closer | B2 |
| We suffered and this poor earth was not enough | C2 |
| The purple black earth of vegetable gardens | D2 |
| Will be here either looked at or not | E2 |
| The sea as today will breathe from its depths | F2 |
| Growing small I disappear in the immense more and more free | G2 |
Czeslaw Milosz
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