Heine In Paris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACBDEDEDFEGHGHGI HJKKKKLKMNMNMONPQPQP RRQOKSKOKKTUTUTVUKWK WKXWWYWZWHYWKWKWYKNW NWNWWGCGCGIXA2LATE a cold smear of sunlight bathes the room | A |
The gilt lime of winter a sun grown melancholy old | B |
Streams in the glass Outside ten thousand chimneys fume | A |
Looping the weather birds with rings of gold | B |
The spires of Paris pricked in an iron spume | A |
Uprise like stars of water and mail the sky | C |
Night comes the wind is cold | B |
La Mouche has lit the candles cleared up the mess | D |
She is talking this merry little girl of the new clown | E |
Mercutio in red spots and Miss Nellie the Equine Princess | D |
Who can ride three terrible horses upside down | E |
'Mon dieu quelle cirque ' and Madame Stephanie's dress | D |
'As true as I live' the clear little voice trickles on | F |
All over the Circus on and on and all over the town | E |
Now she has creaked downstairs Heine is left alone | G |
Knees hugged in bed the drug purring in his brain | H |
And the windows turning blue He can see some clouds being blown | G |
Scraping their big soft bellies on the pane | H |
'Take me O Clouds ' but in a puff they've flown | G |
So once they fled in Eighteen Twenty Nine | I |
From Hamburg was it in a damp disdain | H |
Hamburg those roofs of tulip red those floating trees | J |
Those black masts clotting the air and swart cigars | K |
And puffed old bankers panting along the quays | K |
And Uncle Solomon shouting amongst the spars | K |
And Uncle Solomon's cargoes coffee and cheese | K |
And Uncle Solomon's face like a copper moon | L |
And Uncle Solomon's daughter and the stars the stars | K |
O Hamburg and Amalie the stars and dung | M |
He remembered suddenly that night he stood below | N |
Dark in the street with stinging heart and helpless tongue | M |
And her face passed in the pane like paper to and fro | N |
But in a thousand songs that song was never sung | M |
Amalie Amalie who was only a foaming of thought | O |
A thing thought of and forgotten long ago | N |
And Louise Diana and Jenny and all those bright | P |
Mad girls who had scrawled their names inside his mind | Q |
All vanished all gone and all of them forged in a night | P |
Conspired of dreams and leaving no dream behind | Q |
Ungrateful for their dreaming flight after flight | P |
Of musings wrapped in satin fancies in silk | R |
And a thousand thoughts of naked roses and milk | R |
By love and the moon designed | Q |
But now it seemed that these were only one thought | O |
One stone of Venus cut with a hundred sides | K |
One girl revealed ten thousand times and caught | S |
Ten thousand times from out those amorous tides | K |
Now she was gone They were all gone those girls that he had sought | O |
All gone or paunched in marriage or crushed in graves | K |
Or promised for other men's brides | K |
And it was only a ghost's hair that had spilt | T |
Fur of the night in kissing dark and strange | U |
To choke his lips And all of those worlds he'd built | T |
The girls he'd conjured before his dreams took mange | U |
The rogues he'd stamped on harlot trollop and jilt | T |
The fools he'd blistered all of them passed and forgotten | V |
But that that did not change | U |
Men crumbled man lived on In that animal's face | K |
'Twas but a squirt aimed at the moon to fling contempt | W |
Meyerbeer Borne and Klopstock vanished but in their place | K |
New Klopstocks Meyerbeers blown again and Bornes undreamt | W |
Sprang up like fungi and there remained no trace | K |
Of lashings past Men men he could flog for ever | X |
But man was still exempt | W |
That did not change always the world remained | W |
Breathing and sleeping loving and taking in love | Y |
Fighting and coupling life by the belly constrained | W |
Stupid in roads of flesh eating but never enough | Z |
Ravening never to cease warring but nothing gained | W |
Babbling to silent Christs climbing to heavens of the brain | H |
Unknown unanswering above | Y |
All these remained words passed The paper he'd filled | W |
Deep to the lips in bitter salt with fury and tears | K |
No man remembered anger and fools were stilled | W |
In dust alike and out of those roaring years | K |
What now was left of all the passion he'd spilled | W |
The fire he'd struck A cadence or two of love | Y |
A song that had stroked men's ears | K |
All wrong all wasted Now in this winter snow | N |
In the black winds from Russia and the printed mane of night | W |
Heine looked out and gazed at the world below | N |
Thick with old chemicals breaking far out of sight | W |
With ageless tides of man ah granite flow | N |
Eternal changeless flux of humanity | W |
Undying darkness and light | W |
Not treading those floods could save him not striking stone | G |
Not damning the world could serve only to fly | C |
Careless of men and their shouting untouched alone | G |
Snatched by his own gods from a falling sky | C |
And singing his own way clutching his own his own | G |
Blind to the world yes that was the road of Heine | I |
Up to the sun solitary a speck in the ether | X |
'Ha now Christ Jesus and Jehovah I choose to die ' | A2 |
Kenneth Slessor
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