Where The Sun Rises And Where It Sets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI GJFJKLGJJMNNGOO PQLJ ARSTJS| Once when returning from far Transylvania | A |
| Through mountain forests rocks and Carpathian ridges | B |
| Halting by a ford at the close of day | C |
| My companions had sent me ahead to look | D |
| For passage I let my horse graze | E |
| And out of the saddlebag took the Holy Scripture | F |
| The light was so gracious murmur of streams so sweet | G |
| That reading Paul's epistles and seeing the first star | H |
| I was soon lulled into a profound sleep | I |
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| A young man in ornate Greek raiment | G |
| Touched my arm and I heard his voice | J |
| 'Your time O mortals hastens by like water | F |
| I have descended and known its absyss | J |
| It was I whom cruel Paul chastised in Corinth | K |
| For having stolen my father's wife | L |
| And by his order I was to be excluded | G |
| From the table at which we shared our meals | J |
| Since then I have not been in gatherings of the saints | J |
| And for many years I was led by the sinful love | M |
| Of a poor plaything given to temptation | N |
| And so we doomed ourselves to eternal ruin | N |
| But my Lord and my God whom I knew not | G |
| Tore me from the ashes with his lightning | O |
| In his eyes your truths count for nothing | O |
| His mercy saves all living flesh ' | - |
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| Awake under a huge starry sky | P |
| Having received help unhoped for | Q |
| Absolved of care about our platry life | L |
| I wiped my eyes wet with tears | J |
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| No I have never been to Transylvania | A |
| I have never brought messages from there to my church | R |
| But I could have | S |
| This is an exercise in style | T |
| The pluperfect tense | J |
| Of countries imperfective | S |
Czeslaw Milosz
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