The Spilling Of The Wine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBBBBEBEFGHIJBKBB L BBBMBEENBEBABAEBNBN GOGBPEThe soldiers lie upon the snow | A |
That no longer gyrates under the spinning lights | B |
Night juggles in her fat black hands | C |
They will not babble any more secrets to loose mouthed | D |
nights | B |
Expanding in golden auras | B |
While sleigh bells jingle like new coins the darkness | B |
shuffles | B |
They will not drink any more wine | E |
Wine of the Romanoffs | B |
Jewelled wine | E |
The secret years worked slowly at | F |
Till it was wrought to fire | G |
As stones are faceted | H |
Until they give out light | I |
The soldiers lie very still | J |
Their shadows have shrunk up close | B |
As toads shrink under a stone | K |
And night and silence | B |
The ancient cronies | B |
Foregather above them | L |
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But still over the snow that is white as a ram's fleece | B |
Arms swing like scythes | B |
And shadows in austere lines | B |
Sway in a monstrous and mysterious ritual | M |
Shadows of the Kronstad sailors | B |
Pouring blood and wine | E |
Wine | E |
Spurting out of flagons in a spray of amethyst and gold | N |
Creeping in purple sluices | B |
Wine | E |
And blood in thin bright streams | B |
Besprinkling the immaculate snow | A |
Blood high powered with the heat of old vineyards | B |
Boring into the cool snow | A |
Blood and wine | E |
Mingling in bright pools | B |
That suck at the lights of Petrograd | N |
As dying eyes | B |
Suck in their last sunset | N |
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The night has a rare savor | G |
Out of the snow piles altar high and colored as by a | O |
rosy sacrifice Scented vapor | G |
Ascends in a pale incense | B |
Faint astringent perfume | P |
Of blood and wine | E |
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