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