My Faithful Mother Tongue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGGHIJ KLMNOCPQ REOBS TUVUWG ABCHE| Faithful mother tongue | A |
| I have been serving you | B |
| Every night I used to set before you little bowls of colors | C |
| so you could have your birch your cricket your finch | D |
| as preserved in my memory | E |
| - | |
| This lasted many years | F |
| You were my native land I lacked any other | G |
| I believed that you would also be a messenger | G |
| between me and some good people | H |
| even if they were few twenty ten | I |
| or not born as yet | J |
| - | |
| Now I confess my doubt | K |
| There are moments when it seems to me I have squandered my life | L |
| For you are a tongue of the debased | M |
| of the unreasonable hating themselves | N |
| even more than they hate other nations | O |
| a tongue of informers | C |
| a tongue of the confused | P |
| ill with their own innocence | Q |
| - | |
| But without you who am I | R |
| Only a scholar in a distant country | E |
| a success without fears and humiliations | O |
| Yes who am I without you | B |
| Just a philosopher like everyone else | S |
| - | |
| I understand this is meant as my education | T |
| the glory of individuality is taken away | U |
| Fortune spreads a red carpet | V |
| before the sinner in a morality play | U |
| while on the linen backdropp a magic lantern throws | W |
| images of human and divine torture | G |
| - | |
| Faithful mother tongue | A |
| perhaps after all it's I who must try to save you | B |
| So I will continue to set before you little bowls of colors | C |
| bright and pure if possible | H |
| for what is needed in misfortune is a little order and beauty | E |
Czeslaw Milosz
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