I Didn-t Win Light In A Windfall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJK LMNO| I didn t win light in a windfall | A |
| nor by deed of a father s will | B |
| I hewed my light from granite | C |
| I quarried my heart | D |
| - | |
| In the mine of my heart a spark hides | E |
| not large but wholly my own | F |
| Neither hired nor borrowed nor stolen | G |
| my very own | F |
| - | |
| Sorrow wields huge hammer blows | H |
| the rock of endurance cracks | I |
| blinding my eye with flashes | J |
| I catch in verse | K |
| - | |
| They fly from my lines to your breast | L |
| to vanish in kindled flame | M |
| While I with heart s blood and marrow | N |
| pay the price of the blaze | O |
Hayyim Nahman Bialik
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