Paradiso Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDFGHIJKKLJMNKOP QN| There is no way not to be excited | A |
| When what you have been disillusioned by raises its head | B |
| From its arms and seems to want to talk to you again | C |
| You forget home and family | D |
| And set off on foot or in your automobile | E |
| And go to where you believe this form of reality | D |
| May dwell Not finding it there you refuse | F |
| Any further contact | G |
| Until you are back again trying to forget | H |
| The only thing that moved you it seems and gave what you forever will | I |
| have | J |
| But in the form of a disillusion | K |
| Yet often looking toward the horizon | K |
| There inimical to you is that something you have never found | L |
| And that without those who came before you you could never have | J |
| imagined | M |
| How could you have thought there was one person who could make you | N |
| Happy and that happiness was not the uneven | K |
| Phenomenon you have known it to be Why do you keep believing in this | O |
| Reality so dependent on the time allowed it | P |
| That it has less to do with your exile from the age you are | Q |
| Than from everything else life promised that you could do | N |
Kenneth Koch
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