Statue Of A Couple Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GDHI JDDD KKKL MDND OOPK DKDD IQOR SKDTYour hand my wonder is now icy cold | A |
The purest light of the celestial dome | B |
has burned me through And now we are | C |
as two still plams lying in darlmess | D |
as two black banks of a frozen stream | E |
in the chasm of the world | F |
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Our hair combed back is carved in wood | G |
the moon walks over our ebony shoulders | D |
A distant cockcrow the night goes by silent | H |
Rich is the rime of love withered the dowry | I |
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Where are you living in what depths of time | J |
love stepping down into what waters | D |
now when the frost of our voiceless lips | D |
does not fend off the divine fires | D |
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In a forest of clouds of fcam and of silver | K |
we live caressing lands under our | K |
And we are wielding the might of a dark scepter | K |
to earn oblivion | L |
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My love your breast cut through by a clinel | M |
knows nothing anymore of what it was | D |
Of clouds at dawn of angers at daybreak | N |
of shallows in springtime it has no remembrance | D |
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And you have led me as once an angel led | O |
Tobias onto the rusty mashes of Lombardy | O |
But a day came when a sign frightened you | P |
a stinma of golden measure | K |
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With a scream with inunobile fear in your thin hands | D |
you fell into a pit that ashes lie over | K |
where neither northern firs nor Italian yews | D |
could protect our andent bed of lovers | D |
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What was it what is it what will it be | I |
we filled the world with our cry and calling | Q |
The dawn is back the red moon set | O |
do we know now In a heavy ship | R |
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A helmman comes throws a silken rope | S |
and binds w tightly to eaah other | K |
then he pours on friends once enemies | D |
a handful of snow | T |
Czeslaw Milosz
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