Preamble (a Rough Draft For An Ars Poetica) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCC B D E EC FGHC H IC J CCKKLC CM M M NM CG OCP IQCCNRC MM S C T CU UVCW XB YZA2OSG MB2CC2 D2ME2 UQF2C HG2W MH2MI2J2 G CK2C CHSM M GL2S M2HMN2 M O2MC SP2TCQ2FR2C S2SST2MB2 JU2V2W2SLet's get our dreams unstuck | A |
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The grain of rye | B |
free from the prattle of grass | C |
et loin de arbres orateurs | C |
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I | B |
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plant | D |
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it | - |
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It will sprout | E |
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But forget about | E |
the rustic festivities | C |
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For the explosive word | F |
falls harmlessly | G |
eternal through | H |
the compact generations | C |
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and except for you | H |
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nothing | I |
denotates | C |
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its sweet scented dynamite | J |
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Greetings | C |
I discard eloquence | C |
the empty sail | K |
and the swollen sail | K |
which cause the ship | L |
to lose her course | C |
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My ink nicks | C |
and there | M |
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and there | M |
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and there | M |
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and | N |
there | M |
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sleeps | C |
deep poetry | G |
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The mirror paneled wardrobe | O |
washing down ice floes | C |
the little eskimo girl | P |
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dreaming | I |
in a heap | Q |
of moist negroes | C |
her nose was | C |
flattened | N |
against the window pane | R |
of dreary Christmases | C |
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A white bear | M |
adorned with chromatic moire | M |
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dries himself in the midnight sun | S |
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Liners | C |
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The huge luxury item | T |
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Slowly founders | C |
all its lights aglow | U |
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and so | U |
sinks the evening dress ball | V |
into the thousand mirrors | C |
of the palace hotel | W |
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And now | X |
it is I | B |
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the thin Columbus of phenomena | Y |
alone | Z |
in the front | A2 |
of a mirror paneled wardrobe | O |
full of linen | S |
and locking with a key | G |
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The obstinate miner | M |
of the void | B2 |
exploits | C |
his fertile mine | C2 |
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the potential in the rough | D2 |
glitters there | M |
mingling with its white rock | E2 |
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Oh | U |
princess of the mad sleep | Q |
listen to my horn | F2 |
and my pack of hounds | C |
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I deliver you | H |
from the forest | G2 |
where we came upon the spell | W |
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Here we are | M |
by the pen | H2 |
one with the other | M |
wedded | I2 |
on the page | J2 |
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Isles sobs of Ariadne | G |
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Ariadnes | C |
dragging along | K2 |
Aridnes seals | C |
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for I betray you my fair stanzas | C |
to | H |
run and awaken | S |
elsewhere | M |
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I plan no architecture | M |
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Simply | G |
deaf | L2 |
like you Beethoven | S |
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blind | M2 |
like you | H |
Homer | M |
numberless old man | N2 |
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born everywhere | M |
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I elaborate | O2 |
in the prairies of inner | M |
silence | C |
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and the work of the mission | S |
and the poem of the work | P2 |
and the stanza of the poem | T |
and the group of the stanza | C |
and the words of the group | Q2 |
and the letters of the word | F |
and the least | R2 |
loop of the letters | C |
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it's your foot | S2 |
of attentive satin | S |
that I place in position | S |
pink | T2 |
tightrope walker | M |
sucked up by the void | B2 |
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to the left to the right | J |
the god gives a shake | U2 |
and I walk | V2 |
towards the other side | W2 |
with infinite precaution | S |
Jean Cocteau
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