I Don-t Remember The Word I Wished To Say Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIJI ABAB KILI| I don t remember the word I wished to say | A |
| The blind swallow returns to the hall of shadow | B |
| on shorn wings with the translucent ones to play | A |
| The song of night is sung without memory though | B |
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| No birds No blossoms on the dried flowers | C |
| The manes of night s horses are translucent | D |
| An empty boat drifts on the naked river | E |
| Lost among grasshoppers the word s quiescent | D |
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| It swells slowly like a shrine or a canvas sheet | F |
| hurling itself down mad like Antigone | G |
| or falls now a dead swallow at our feet | F |
| with a twig of greenness and a Stygian sympathy | G |
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| O to bring back the diffidence of the intuitive caress | H |
| and the full delight of recognition | I |
| I am so fearful of the sobs of The Muses | J |
| the mist the bell sounds perdition | I |
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| Mortal creatures can love and recognise sound may | A |
| pour out for them through their fingers and overflow | B |
| I don t remember the word I wished to say | A |
| and a fleshless thought returns to the house of shadow | B |
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| The translucent one speaks in another guise | K |
| always the swallow dear one Antigone | I |
| on the lips the burning of black ice | L |
| and Stygian sounds in the memory | I |
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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