Theme And Variation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEE FGHIJJK JLLLELJ LJM NDJAJO LJJAPELJ AQRS JJEILJTU A V| That summer there was no honey | A |
| The queens led their swarms away | B |
| the strawberry bed dried up in a day | B |
| the berrypickers went home early | A |
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| All that sweetness swept on one ray of light | C |
| off to sleep Who slept this sleep before his time | D |
| Honey and berries He is a stranger to suffering | E |
| the one with the world at his hands In want of nothing | E |
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| In want of nothing but perhaps a bit | F |
| enought to rest or to stand straight | G |
| He was bent by caves and shadows | H |
| because no country took him in | I |
| He wasn't even safe in the wood | J |
| a partisan whom the world reliquished | J |
| toher dead satellite the moon | K |
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| He is a stranger to sufferin the one with the world | J |
| at his hands | L |
| and was anything not handed him He had the bettle's | L |
| cohort wrapped round his finger blazes | L |
| branded his face with scars and the wellspring | E |
| appeared as a chimera before his eyes | L |
| where it was not | J |
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| Honey and berries | L |
| Had he ever known the scent he'd have followed it | J |
| long ago | M |
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| Walking a sleepwalker's sleep | N |
| who slept this sleep before his time | D |
| One who was born ancient | J |
| and called to the darkness early | A |
| All that sweetness swept on one ray of light | J |
| before him | O |
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| He spat into the undergrowth a curse | L |
| to bring drought he screamed | J |
| and his prayers were heard | J |
| the berrypickers went home early | A |
| When the root rose up | P |
| and slithered after them hissing | E |
| a snakeskin remained the tree's last defense | L |
| The strawberry bed dried up in a day | J |
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| In the village below the buckets stood empty | A |
| like drums waiting in the square | Q |
| Then the sun struck | R |
| and paradiddled death | S |
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| The windows fell shut | J |
| the queens led their swarms away | J |
| and no one prevented them from fleeing | E |
| Wilderness took them in | I |
| the hollow tree among ferns | L |
| the first free state | J |
| The last human being was stung | T |
| and felt no pain | U |
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| That summer there was no honey | A |
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| Translated from the German by Lilian M Friedberg | V |
Ingeborg Bachmann
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