I Am Sorry It Is Winter Now Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL MNOP QRST USVW SMXS| I am sorry it is winter now | A |
| And you can't hear mosquitoes in the house | B |
| But you reminded yourself | C |
| Of the frivolous straw | D |
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| The dragonflies hover in the blue sky | E |
| And fashion twirls like a swallow | F |
| A basket on the head | G |
| Or a bombastic ode | H |
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| I don't presume to give advice | I |
| And useless excuses | J |
| But the taste of whipped cream | K |
| And the smell of oranges is forever | L |
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| You define everything without thinking | M |
| And things are the worse for it | N |
| What can you do The most sensitive mind | O |
| Is put wholly on the surface | P |
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| You try to beat the yolk | Q |
| With an angry spoon | R |
| It grew white it succumbed | S |
| Yet just a little more | T |
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| In you everything teases everything sings | U |
| Like an Italian roulade | S |
| And a small cherry mouth | V |
| Demands some dry grapes | W |
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| Don't try so hard to be smart | S |
| In you everything is whimsy fleeting | M |
| And in the shadow from your cap | X |
| A Venetian bautta | S |
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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