Don Juan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGC CCH IJK| My own dream is lofty simple thing | A |
| To seize the oar put feet into the stirrups | B |
| And to deceive the time that slow tries to stir us | C |
| By kissing lips forever new and pink | D |
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| When getting old to keep the law of Christ | E |
| Cast down looks put on sackcloth and ashes | F |
| Put on the chest as heavy obligations | G |
| The iron Cross that He died on for us | C |
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| And only when amidst the orgy s madness | C |
| I get my senses a sleepwalker aimless | C |
| Just frightened in the silence of his ways | H |
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| Then I recall the worst of many others | I |
| I had no children from a woman in my years | J |
| And never called a man a brother | K |
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
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