Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CD EFG HIJ KLM NOPN QOERS TUVW XY RZ| The pungent smells of a California winter | A |
| Grayness and rosiness an almost transparent full moon | B |
| I add logs to the fire I drink and I ponder | A |
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| In Ilawa the news item said at age | C |
| Died Aleksander Rymkiewicz poet | D |
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| He was the youngest in our group I patronized him slightly | E |
| Just as I patronized others for their inferior minds | F |
| Though they had many virtues I couldn t touch | G |
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| And so I am here approaching the end | H |
| Of the century and of my life Proud of my strength | I |
| Yet embarrassed by the clearness of the view | J |
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| Avant gardes mixed with blood | K |
| The ashes of inconceivable arts | L |
| An omnium gatherum of chaos | M |
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| I passed judgment on that Though marked myself | N |
| This hasn t been the age for the righteous and the decent | O |
| I know what it means to beget monsters | P |
| And to recognize in them myself | N |
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| You moon You Aleksander fire of cedar logs | Q |
| Waters close over us a name lasts but an instant | O |
| Not important whether the generations hold us in memory | E |
| Great was that chase with the hounds for the unattainable meaning of | R |
| the world | S |
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| And now I am ready to keep running | T |
| When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death | U |
| I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest | V |
| Where beyond every essence a new essence waits | W |
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| You music of my late years I am called | X |
| By a sound and a color which are more and more perfect | Y |
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| Do not die out fire Enter my dreams love | R |
| Be young forever seasons of the earth | Z |
Czeslaw Milosz
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