Folk Tune Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEFF FFGG HHIJ KKLL MNOO| It's not that the Muse feels like clamming up | A |
| it's more like high time for the lad's last nap | B |
| And the scarf waving lass who wished him the best | C |
| drives a steamroller across his chest | C |
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| And the words won't rise either like that rod | D |
| or like logs to rejoin their old grove's sweet rot | E |
| and like eggs in the frying pan the face | F |
| spills its eyes all over the pillowcase | F |
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| Are you warm tonight under those six veils | F |
| in that basin of yours whose strung bottom wails | F |
| where like fish that gasp at the foreign blue | G |
| my raw lip was catching what then was you | G |
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| I would have hare's ears sewn to my bald head | H |
| in thick woods for your sake I'd gulp drops of lead | H |
| and from black gnarled snags in the oil smooth pond | I |
| I'd bob up to your face as some Tirpitz won't | J |
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| But it's not on the cards or the waiter's tray | K |
| and it pains to say where one's hair turns gray | K |
| There are more blue veins than the blood to swell | L |
| their dried web let alone some remote brain cell | L |
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| We are parting for good my friend that's that | M |
| Draw an empty circle on your yellow pad | N |
| This will be me no insides in thrall | O |
| Stare at it a while then erase the scrawl | O |
Joseph Brodsky
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