In Warsaw Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABC DAE BFGHBAA BFFIJKLAMAMFHNBOP QARASFATUAV WXAAAA

What are you doing here poet on the ruinsA
Of St John's Cathedral this sunnyB
Day in springC
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What are you thinking here where the windD
Blowing from the Vistula scattersA
The red dust of the rubbleE
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You swore never to beB
A ritual mournerF
You swore never to touchG
The deep wounds of your nationH
So you would not make them holyB
With the accursed holiness that pursuesA
Descendants for many centuriesA
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But the lament of AntigoneB
Searching for her brotherF
Is indeed beyond the powerF
Of endurance And the heartI
Is a stone in which is enclosedJ
Like an insect the dark loveK
Of a most unhappy landL
I did not want to love soA
That was not my designM
I did not want to pity soA
That was not my designM
My pen is lighterF
Than a hummingbird's feather This burdenH
Is too much for it to bearN
How can I live in this countryB
Where the foot knocks againstO
The unburied bones of kinP
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I hear voices see smiles I cannotQ
Write anything five handsA
Seize my pen and order me to writeR
The story of their lives and deathsA
Was I born to becomeS
a ritual mournerF
I want to sing of festivitiesA
The greenwood into which ShakespeareT
Often took me LeaveU
To poets a moment of happinessA
Otherwise your world will perishV
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It's madness to live without joyW
And to repeat to the deadX
Whose part was to be gladnessA
Of action in thought and in the flesh singing feastsA
Only the two salvaged wordsA
Truth and justiceA

Czeslaw Milosz



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