The Plain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDE FG HA IJ KL MN OE GKP EGQR I STU KHI 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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