In Warsaw Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DAE BFGHBAA BFFIJKLAMAMFHNBOP QARASFATUAV WXAAAA| What 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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