Terminal Silhouette Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEED FGGF HIJH KLLK MKNH OFFO| I know you not and in no way | A |
| I want to lose starry illusions | B |
| With such a face in worst confusion | C |
| People are loyal to a ray | A |
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| All that the fate has marked for grave | D |
| Have such closed off face instead | E |
| You are a page that was not read | E |
| And no you will not be a slave | D |
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| A slave with such a face Oh no | F |
| There is no error here by chance | G |
| Your slender figure and your glance | G |
| Will be secret to many I know | F |
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| A heavy bracelet of your hair | H |
| Under the thrown over scarf | I |
| You'd do with guitar or a harp | J |
| And your pale face as pale as air | H |
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| I know you not And possibly | K |
| You're kind and moderate like all | L |
| Maybe May these be ravings all | L |
| For only raving ones may be | K |
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| Perhaps the day is not so far | M |
| When I will fathom what's unseemly | K |
| But this to err it is so relieving | N |
| It is so easy yet to err | H |
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| Touching the scarf with a light hand | O |
| There where the whistles shrilly blow | F |
| This is the you that I will know | F |
| Where you just like a riddle stand | O |
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva
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