Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLIIMNOPQO RFBSTUVOIM| Twice I awoke this night and went | A |
| to the window The streetlamps were | B |
| a fragment of a sentence spoken in sleep | C |
| leading to nothing like omission points | D |
| affording me no comfort and no cheer | E |
| I dreamt of you with child and now | F |
| having lived so many years apart from you | G |
| experienced my guilt and my hands | H |
| joyfully stroking your belly | I |
| found they were fumbling at my trousers | J |
| and the light switch Shuffling to the window | K |
| I realized I had left you there alone | L |
| in the dark in the dream where patiently | I |
| you waited and did not blame me | I |
| when I returned for the unnatural | M |
| interruption For in the dark | N |
| that which in the light has broken off lasts | O |
| there we are married wedded we play | P |
| the two backed beast and children | Q |
| justify our nakedness | O |
| On some future night you will again | R |
| come to me tired thin now | F |
| and I shall see a son or daughter | B |
| as yet unnamed this time I'll | S |
| not hurry to the light switch nor | T |
| will I remove my hand because I've not the right | U |
| to leave you in that realm of silent | V |
| shadows before the fence of days | O |
| falling into dependence from a reality | I |
| containing me unattainable | M |
Joseph Brodsky
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