Only Serpents Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIHI JKLM NOL PQPR STSU VWXY ZA2ZB2 C2D2C2E2 F2G2AH2| Only serpents let their skin be fallen | A |
| And a soul all grown up and old | B |
| We alas change an eternal soul | C |
| Leaving body in eternal hold | B |
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| Oh remembrance power she giant | D |
| You direct a horse life with a bridle | E |
| You will tell me all these men about | F |
| Who had had my body before I'd | G |
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| The first one was ugly thin and tragic | H |
| Loving darkness of the garden lane | I |
| Falling Leaf the child of gloomy magic | H |
| Whose one word could fully stop the rain | I |
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| Second one he liked the wind from South | J |
| Every noise for him was strings' accord | K |
| He believed that life is just his spouse | L |
| And the rag under his feet the world | M |
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| I don't like him in his mind he's roused | N |
| To the crowns of the King and God | O |
| He had hanged on entrance to my house | L |
| The signboard with a script 'The Bard ' | - |
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| I do like the favorite of freedom | P |
| Him who used to sail in sea and shoot | Q |
| What a song he heard in water's kingdom | P |
| What a cloud followed his routes | R |
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| I'm a builder which is working smartly | S |
| O'er the temple arising in a haze | T |
| Seek for fame for my beloved country | S |
| As in Heavens so on the earth | U |
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| Heart is scorched by non extinguished fire | V |
| Till the day in which as made of light | W |
| Walls of New Jerusalem will spire | X |
| On the fields of my beloved land | Y |
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| Then the queer wind will start to blow | Z |
| And the awful light will pour on us | A2 |
| It's the Milky Way begins to grow | Z |
| As a garden of the dazzling stars | B2 |
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| And the tiered stranger will appear | C2 |
| Hiding face but I will catch his dream | D2 |
| Looking at a lion going near | C2 |
| And an eagle flying straight to him | E2 |
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| I will scream but who will hear my groan | F2 |
| Who will save my soul from a crash | G2 |
| Only snakes could let their skin be fallen | A |
| People lose the soul not the flesh | H2 |
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
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