I Threw My Arms About Those Shoulders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHHAIDJKDLM| M B | A |
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| I threw my arms about those shoulders glancing | B |
| at what emerged behind that back | C |
| and saw a chair pushed slightly forward | D |
| merging now with the lighted wall | E |
| The lamp glared too bright to show | F |
| the shabby furniture to some advantage | G |
| and that is why sofa of brown leather | H |
| shone a sort of yellow in a corner | H |
| The table looked bare the parquet glossy | A |
| the stove quite dark and in a dusty frame | I |
| a landscape did not stir Only the sideboard | D |
| seemed to me to have some animation | J |
| But a moth flitted round the room | K |
| causing my arrested glance to shift | D |
| and if at any time a ghost had lived here | L |
| he now was gone abandoning this house | M |
Joseph Brodsky
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