If I Am To Know How To Restrain Your Hands Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD CEFG GHIJK LMNO PQRS HTNU| If I am to know how to restrain your hands | A |
| If I am to betray the tender salty lips | B |
| I must wait for daybreak in the dense acropolis | C |
| How I hate those ancient weeping timbers | D |
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| Achaian men equip their steeds in darkness | C |
| With jagged saws they rip firmly into the walls | E |
| The dry fuss of blood does not subside at all | F |
| And for you there is no name no sound no mold | G |
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| How could I imagine you'd return How bold | G |
| Why did I lose touch with you so prematurely | H |
| The gloom has still not dispersed | I |
| The cock has not finished his song | J |
| The glowing ax has still not entered the pulp | K |
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| The resin came forth on the walls like a transparent tear | L |
| And the city feels its wooden ribs | M |
| But the blood rushed out to the stairs an attack | N |
| And thrice the men dreamed of the seductive figure | O |
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| Where is pleasant Troy where is the king's the maiden's home | P |
| Priam's great starling coop will be destroyed | Q |
| And the arrows will fall as a dry forest rain | R |
| And more will spring up like a hazel grove | S |
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| The last star's sting will be extinguished painlessly | H |
| And morning will knock on the window like a grey swallow | T |
| And slow day will begin to stir like an ox in the haystack | N |
| Just awakened from a long dream | U |
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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