Preface Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EDFG HBIJK JLMDN MMMO| First plain speech in the mother tongue | A |
| Hearing it you should be able to see | B |
| Apple trees a river the bend of a road | C |
| As if in a flash of summer lightning | D |
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| And it should contain more than images | E |
| It has been lured by singsong | D |
| A daydream melody Defenseless | F |
| It was bypassed by the sharp dry world | G |
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| You often ask yourself why you feel shame | H |
| Whenever you look through a book of poetry | B |
| As if the author for reasons unclear to you | I |
| Addressed the worse side of your nature | J |
| Pushing aside thought cheating thought | K |
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| Seasoned with jokes clowning satire | J |
| Poetry still knows how to please | L |
| Then its excellence is much admired | M |
| But the grave combats where life is at stake | D |
| Are fought in prose It was not always so | N |
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| And our regret has remained unconfessed | M |
| Novels and essays serve but will not last | M |
| One clear stanza can take more weight | M |
| Than a whole wagon of elaborate prose | O |
Czeslaw Milosz
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