Dedication Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDB EFBG HBAI AEJKLMNF ODPQ| You whom I could not save | A |
| Listen to me | B |
| Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another | C |
| I swear there is in me no wizardry of words | D |
| I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree | B |
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| What strengthened me for you was lethal | E |
| You mixed up farewell to an epoch with the beginning of a new one | F |
| Inspiration of hatred with lyrical beauty | B |
| Blind force with accomplished shape | G |
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| Here is the valley of shallow Polish rivers And an immense bridge | H |
| Going into white fog Here is a broken city | B |
| And the wind throws the screams of gulls on your grave | A |
| When I am talking with you | I |
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| What is poetry which does not save | A |
| Nations or people | E |
| A connivance with official lies | J |
| A song of drunkards whose throats will be cut in a moment | K |
| Readings for sophomore girls | L |
| That I wanted good poetry without knowing it | M |
| That I discovered late its salutary aim | N |
| In this and only this I find salvation | F |
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| They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds | O |
| To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds | D |
| I put this book here for you who once lived | P |
| So that you should visit us no more | Q |
Czeslaw Milosz
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