What Does It Mean Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFC GHIJKL GKMN| It does not know it glitters | A |
| It does not know it flies | B |
| It does not know it is this not that | C |
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| And more and more often agape | D |
| With my Gauloise dying out | E |
| Over a glass of red wine | F |
| I muse on the meaning of being this not that | C |
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| Just as long ago when I was twenty | G |
| But then there was a hope I would be everything | H |
| Perhaps even a butterfly or a thrush by magic | I |
| Now I see dusty district roads | J |
| And a town where the postmaster gets drunk every day | K |
| Melancholy with remaining identical to himself | L |
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| If only the stars contained me | G |
| If only everything kept happening in such a way | K |
| That the so called world opposed the so called flesh | M |
| Were I at least not contradictory Alas | N |
Czeslaw Milosz
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