I Sit By The Window Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EEFGDH IIJKLL MMNNOE PQRRRS RRTDUU D| I said fate plays a game without a score | A |
| and who needs fish if you've got caviar | B |
| The triumph of the Gothic style would come to pass | C |
| and turn you on no need for coke or grass | C |
| I sit by the window Outside an aspen | D |
| When I loved I loved deeply It wasn't often | D |
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| I said the forest's only part of a tree | E |
| Who needs the whole girl if you've got her knee | E |
| Sick of the dust raised by the modern era | F |
| the Russian eye would rest on an Estonian spire | G |
| I sit by the window The dishes are done | D |
| I was happy here But I won't be again | H |
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| I wrote The bulb looks at the flower in fear | I |
| and love as an act lacks a verb the zer | I |
| o Euclid thought the vanishing point became | J |
| wasn't math it was the nothingness of Time | K |
| I sit by the window And while I sit | L |
| my youth comes back Sometimes I'd smile Or spit | L |
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| I said that the leaf may destory the bud | M |
| what's fertile falls in fallow soil a dud | M |
| that on the flat field the unshadowed plain | N |
| nature spills the seeds of trees in vain | N |
| I sit by the window Hands lock my knees | O |
| My heavy shadow's my squat company | E |
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| My song was out of tune my voice was cracked | P |
| but at least no chorus can ever sing it back | Q |
| That talk like this reaps no reward bewilders | R |
| no one no one's legs rest on my sholders | R |
| I sit by the window in the dark Like an express | R |
| the waves behind the wavelike curtain crash | S |
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| A loyal subject of these second rate years | R |
| I proudly admit that my finest ideas | R |
| are second rate and may the future take them | T |
| as trophies of my struggle against suffocation | D |
| I sit in the dark And it would be hard to figure out | U |
| which is worse the dark inside or the darkness out | U |
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| Anonymous Submission | D |
Joseph Brodsky
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