Faust In Old Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EF GH IJ KL MN OP QR SS TT UV WX YZ II LI A2B2C2D2B2Poet and veteran of childhood look | A |
See in me the obscene for you have love | B |
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For you have hatred you you must be judge | C |
Deliver judgement Delmore Schwartz | D |
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Well known wishes have been to war | E |
The vicious mouth has chewed the vine | F |
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The patient crab beneath the shirt | G |
Has charmed such interests as Indies meant | H |
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For I have walked within and seen each sea | I |
The fish that flies the broken burning bird | J |
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Born again beginning again my breast | K |
Purple with persons like a tragic play | L |
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For I have flown the cloud and fallen down | M |
Plucked Venus sneering at her moan | N |
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I took the train that takes away remorse | O |
I cast down every king like Socrates | P |
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I knocked each nut to find the meat | Q |
A worm was there and not a mint | R |
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Metaphysicians could have told me this | S |
But each learns for himself as in the kiss | S |
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Polonius I poked not him | T |
To whom aspires spire and hymn | T |
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Who succors children and the very poor | U |
I pierced the pompous Premier not Jesus Christ | V |
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I picked Polonius and Moby Dick | W |
the ego bloomed into an octopus | X |
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Now come I to the exhausted West at last | Y |
I know my vanity my nothingness | Z |
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now I float will less in despair's dead sea | I |
Every man my enemy | I |
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Spontaneous I have too much to say | L |
And what I say will no one not old see | I |
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If we could love one another it would be well | A2 |
But as it is I am sorry for the whole world myself | B2 |
apart My heart is full of memory and desire and in | C2 |
its last nervousness there is pity for those I have | D2 |
touched but only hatred and contempt for myself | B2 |
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