Go Back To The Tainted Lap, Leah Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGD HECD DIEDE| Go back to the tainted lap Leah | A |
| Whence you came | B |
| Because to the sun of Ilion | C |
| You preferred yellow twilight | D |
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| Go no one will touch you | E |
| Let the incestuous daughter | F |
| Drop her head on her father's breast | G |
| In the dead of night | D |
| - | |
| But the fatal change | H |
| Must be fulfilled in you | E |
| You shall be Leah not Helen | C |
| Thus not betrothed | D |
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| For it is harder for a king's blood | D |
| To flow in the veins than another's | I |
| No you will love a Jew | E |
| You will vanish in him and | D |
| God help you | E |
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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