Late Ripeness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC CD EFG HIC JK LK DFMIN BOP| Not soon as late as the approach of my ninetieth year | A |
| I felt a door opening in me and I entered | B |
| the clarity of early morning | C |
| - | |
| One after another my former lives were departing | C |
| like ships together with their sorrow | D |
| - | |
| And the countries cities gardens the bays of seas | E |
| assigned to my brush came closer | F |
| ready now to be described better than they were before | G |
| - | |
| I was not separated from people | H |
| grief and pity joined us | I |
| We forget I kept saying that we are all children of the King | C |
| - | |
| For where we come from there is no division | J |
| into Yes and No into is was and will be | K |
| - | |
| We were miserable we used no more than a hundredth part | L |
| of the gift we received for our long journey | K |
| - | |
| Moments from yesterday and from centuries ago | D |
| a sword blow the painting of eyelashes before a mirror | F |
| of polished metal a lethal musket shot a caravel | M |
| staving its hull against a reef they dwell in us | I |
| waiting for a fulfillment | N |
| - | |
| I knew always that I would be a worker in the vineyard | B |
| as are all men and women living at the same time | O |
| whether they are aware of it or not | P |
Czeslaw Milosz
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