The Sixth Sense Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJIK LKLK MNON PKQB| Fine is the wine that is in love with us | A |
| The goodly bread we wait for from the oven | B |
| And woman whom we have possessed at last | C |
| After we've suffered under yoke her own | D |
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| But what to do if a red sunset freezes | E |
| Above a sky that's drowning in cold | F |
| Where there is silence and unearthly peace | G |
| What can one do with the immortal ode | H |
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| You can't eat it or drink or even kiss | I |
| The moment fled and next one now hovers | J |
| And we wring hands but yet once more miss | I |
| We are condemned to miss and miss it over | K |
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| Just as a boy forgetting games and friends | L |
| Sometimes beholds the girls bath in a river | K |
| And knowing nothing of the loving trends | L |
| Is yet tormented by a hidden fever | K |
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| As once in time on overgrowing banks | M |
| The moisten creature holed in despair | N |
| Of self impotence feeling on its back | O |
| Wings still unformed and very feeble pair | N |
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| So century after century when O Christ | P |
| Under the knife of liberal arts and nature | K |
| The flesh breaks down and the spirit cries | Q |
| As they bear organs of the sixth sensation | B |
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
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