Poem (faithful To Your Commands, O Consciousness) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D D C E F G H DI| Poem Faithful to your commands o consciousness o | A |
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| Beating wings I studied | B |
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| the roses and the muses of reality | C |
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| the deceptions and the deceptive elation of the redness of the growing morning | D |
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| and all the greened and thomed variety of the vines of error which begin by promising | D |
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| Everything and more than everything and then suddenly | C |
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| At the height of noon seem to rise to the peak or dune like moon of no return | E |
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| So that everything is or seems to have become nothing or of no genuine importance | F |
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| And it is not that the departure of hope or its sleep has made it inconceivable | G |
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| That anything should be or should have been important | H |
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| It is the belief that hope itself was not from the beginning | D |
| before believing the most important of all beliefs | I |
Delmore Schwartz
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