Sanctuary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB D E FGBHB I JK K LKMN O LK K K O LKP KB| People pray to each other The way I say 'you' to someone else | A |
| respectfully intimately desperately The way someone says | B |
| 'you' to me hopefully expectantly intensely | C |
| Huub Oosterhuis | B |
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| You who I don't know I don't know how to talk to you | D |
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| What is it like for you there | E |
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| Here well wanting solitude and talk friendship | F |
| The uses of solitude To imagine to hear | G |
| Learning braille To imagine other solitudes | B |
| But they will not be mine | H |
| to wait in the quiet not to scatter the voices | B |
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| What are you afraid of | I |
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| What will happen All this leaving And meetings yes But death | J |
| What happens when you die | K |
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| quot not scatter the voices quot | K |
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| Drown out Not make a house out of my own words To be quiet in | L |
| another throat other eyes listen for what it is like there What | K |
| word What silence Allowing Uncertain to drift in the | M |
| restlessness Repose To run like water | N |
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| What is it like there right now | O |
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| Listen the crowding of the street the room Everyone hunches in | L |
| against the crowding holding their breath against dread | K |
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| What do you dread | K |
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| What happens when you die | K |
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| What do you dread in this room now | O |
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| Not listening Now Not watching Safe inside my own skin | L |
| To die not having listened Not having asked To have scattered | K |
| life | P |
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| Yes I know the thread you have to keep finding over again to | K |
| follow it back to life I know Impossible sometimes | B |
Jean Valentine
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