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The Stoic: For Laura Von Courten Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF GHGH IJJJ JJJJ KLKL MLNL LOLO LJLJ

All winter long you listened for the boomA
Of distant cannon wheeled into their placeB
Sometimes outside beneath a bombers moonC
You stood alone to watch the searchlights traceB
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Their careful webs against the boding skyD
While miles away on Munich s vacant squareE
The bombs lunged down with an unruly cryD
Whose blast you saw yet could but faintly hearF
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And might have turned your eyes upon the gleamG
Of a thousand years of snow where near the cloudsH
The Alps ride massive to their full extremeG
And season after season glacier crowdsH
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The dark persistent smudge of conifersI
Or seen beyond the hedge and through the treesJ
The shadowy forms of cattle on the furzeJ
Their dim coats white with mist against the freezeJ
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Or thought instead of other times than theseJ
Of other countries and of other sightsJ
Eternal Venice sinking by degreesJ
Into the very water that she lightsJ
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Reflected in canals the lucid domeK
Of Maria della Salute at your feetL
Her triple spires disfigured by the foamK
Remembered in Berlin the parks the neatL
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Footpaths and lawns the clean spring foliageM
Where just short weeks before a bomb unaimedL
Released a frightened lion from its cageN
Which in the mottled dark that trees enflamedL
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Killed one who hurried homeward from the raidL
And by yourself there standing in the chillO
You must with so much known have been afraidL
And chosen such a mind of constant willO
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Which though all time corrode with constant hurtL
Remains until it occupies no spaceJ
That which it is and passionless inertL
Becomes at last no meaning and no placeJ

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