To Alexander Berkman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFGHIJCKL MNOPQRSTTMUVWTXTYTZA 2TAT| Can you see me Sasha | A |
| I can see you | B |
| A tentacle of the vast dawn is resting on your face | C |
| that floats as though detached | D |
| in a sultry and greenish vapor | E |
| I cannot reach my hands to you | B |
| would not if I could | F |
| though I know how warmly yours would close about them | G |
| Why | H |
| I do not know | I |
| I have a sense of shame | J |
| Your eyes hurt me mysterious openings in the gray stone of your face | C |
| through which your spirit streams out taut as a flag | K |
| bearing strange symbols to the new dawn | L |
| - | |
| If I stay projected trembling against these bars filtering | M |
| emaciated light | N |
| will your eyes that bore their lonely way through mine | O |
| stop as at a friendly gate | P |
| grow warm and luminous | Q |
| but I cannot stay for the smell | R |
| I know how the days pass | S |
| The prison squats | T |
| with granite haunches | T |
| on the young spring | M |
| battened under with its twisting green | U |
| and you socket for every bolt | V |
| piercing like a driven nail | W |
| Eyes stare you through the bars | T |
| eyes blank as a graveled yard | X |
| and the silence shuffles heavy dice of feet in iron corridors | T |
| until the day that has soiled herself in this black hole | Y |
| to caress the pale mask of your face | T |
| withdraws the last wizened ray | Z |
| to wash in the infinite | A2 |
| her discolored hands | T |
| Can you hear me Sasha | A |
| in your surrounded darkness | T |
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