In Warsaw Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DAE BFGHBAA BFFIJKLAMAMFHNBOP QARASFATUAV WXAAAAWhat are you doing here poet on the ruins | A |
Of St John's Cathedral this sunny | B |
Day in spring | C |
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What are you thinking here where the wind | D |
Blowing from the Vistula scatters | A |
The red dust of the rubble | E |
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You swore never to be | B |
A ritual mourner | F |
You swore never to touch | G |
The deep wounds of your nation | H |
So you would not make them holy | B |
With the accursed holiness that pursues | A |
Descendants for many centuries | A |
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But the lament of Antigone | B |
Searching for her brother | F |
Is indeed beyond the power | F |
Of endurance And the heart | I |
Is a stone in which is enclosed | J |
Like an insect the dark love | K |
Of a most unhappy land | L |
I did not want to love so | A |
That was not my design | M |
I did not want to pity so | A |
That was not my design | M |
My pen is lighter | F |
Than a hummingbird's feather This burden | H |
Is too much for it to bear | N |
How can I live in this country | B |
Where the foot knocks against | O |
The unburied bones of kin | P |
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I hear voices see smiles I cannot | Q |
Write anything five hands | A |
Seize my pen and order me to write | R |
The story of their lives and deaths | A |
Was I born to become | S |
a ritual mourner | F |
I want to sing of festivities | A |
The greenwood into which Shakespeare | T |
Often took me Leave | U |
To poets a moment of happiness | A |
Otherwise your world will perish | V |
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It's madness to live without joy | W |
And to repeat to the dead | X |
Whose part was to be gladness | A |
Of action in thought and in the flesh singing feasts | A |
Only the two salvaged words | A |
Truth and justice | A |
Czeslaw Milosz
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