Elegy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDE FGGHIH JHJKL HHMNM| About a year has passed I've returned to the place of the battle | A |
| to its birds that have learned their unfolding of wings | B |
| from a subtle | A |
| lift of a surprised eyebrow or perhaps from a razor blade | C |
| wings now the shade of early twilight now of state | D |
| bad blood | E |
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| Now the place is abuzz with trading | F |
| in your ankles's remnants bronzes | G |
| of sunburnt breastplates dying laughter bruises | G |
| rumors of fresh reserves memories of high treason | H |
| laundered banners with imprints of the many | I |
| who since have risen | H |
| - | |
| All's overgrown with people A ruin's a rather stubborn | J |
| architectural style And the hearts's distinction | H |
| from a pitch black cavern | J |
| isn't that great not great enough to fear | K |
| that we may collide again like blind eggs somewhere | L |
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| At sunrise when nobody stares at one's face I often | H |
| set out on foot to a monument cast in molten | H |
| lengthy bad dreams And it says on the plinth commander | M |
| in chief But it reads in grief or in brief | N |
| or in going under | M |
Joseph Brodsky
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