Törnfallet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFBB GGAA HHCD BCC CCDD IIBB| There is a meadow in Sweden | A |
| where I lie smitten | A |
| eyes stained with clouds' | B |
| white ins and outs | B |
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| And about that meadow | C |
| roams my widow | C |
| plaiting a clover | D |
| wreath for her lover | D |
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| I took her in marriage | E |
| in a granite parish | F |
| The snow lent her whiteness | B |
| a pine was a witness | B |
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| She'd swim in the oval | G |
| lake whose opal | G |
| mirror framed by bracken | A |
| felt happy broken | A |
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| And at night the stubborn | H |
| sun of her auburn | H |
| hair shone from my pillow | C |
| at post and pillar | D |
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| Now in the distance | B |
| I hear her descant She sings Blue Swallow | C |
| but I can't follow | C |
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| The evening shadow | C |
| robs the meadow | C |
| of width and color | D |
| It's getting colder | D |
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| As I lie dying | I |
| here I'm eyeing | I |
| stars Here's Venus | B |
| no one between us | B |
Joseph Brodsky
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