Lake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCD EFEF GHGI| Maidenly lake fathomless lake | A |
| Stay as you were once overgrown with rushes | B |
| Idling with a reflected cloud for my sake | A |
| Whom your shore no longer touches | B |
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| Your girl was always real to me | C |
| Her bones lie in a city by the sea | C |
| Everything occurs too normally | C |
| A unique love simply wears away | D |
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| Girl hey girl we repose in an abyss | E |
| The base of a skull a rib a pelvis | F |
| Is it you me We are more than this | E |
| No clock counts hours and years for us | F |
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| How could a creature ephemeral eternal | G |
| Measure for me necessity and fate | H |
| You are locked with me in a letter crystal | G |
| No matter that you're not a living maid | I |
Czeslaw Milosz
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