Silentium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDDE FGGH IGGI| She has not yet been born | A |
| she is music and word | B |
| and therefore the untorn | A |
| fabric of what is stirred | B |
| - | |
| Silent the ocean breathes | C |
| Madly day s glitter roams | D |
| Spray of pale lilac foams | D |
| in a bowl of grey blue leaves | E |
| - | |
| May my lips rehearse | F |
| the primordial silence | G |
| like a note of crystal clearness | G |
| sounding pure from birth | H |
| - | |
| Stay as foam Aphrodite Art | I |
| and return Word where music begins | G |
| and fused with life s origins | G |
| be ashamed heart of heart | I |
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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