The Plain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDE FG HA IJ KL MN OE GKP EGQR I STU KH| I was alone with a chair on a plain | A |
| Which lost itself in an empty horizon | B |
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| The plain was flawlessly paved | C |
| Nothing absolutely nothing but the chair and I | D |
| were there | E |
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| The sky was forever blue | F |
| No sun gave life to it | G |
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| An inscrutable insensible light | H |
| illuminated the infinite plain | A |
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| To me this eternal day seemed to be projected | I |
| artificially from a different sphere | J |
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| I was never sleepy nor hungry nor thirsty | K |
| never hot nor cold | L |
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| Time was only an abstruse ghost | M |
| since nothing happened or changed | N |
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| In me Time still lived a little | O |
| This mainly thanks to the chair | E |
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| Because of my occupation with it | G |
| I did not completely | K |
| lose my sense of the past | P |
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| Now and then I'd hitch myself as if I were a horse to the chair | E |
| and trot around with it | G |
| sometimes in circles | Q |
| and sometimes straight ahead | R |
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| I assume that I succeeded | I |
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| Whether I really succeeded I do not know | S |
| Since there was nothing in space | T |
| By which I could have checked my movements | U |
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| As I sat on the chair I pondered sadly but not desperately | K |
| Why the core of the world exuded such black light | H |
Jean Arp
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