The Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFE GHIJKLGM NOPOQRSR TUTUVWXW| My beast my age who will try | A |
| to look you in the eye | A |
| and weld the vertebrae | B |
| of century to century | C |
| with blood Creating blood | D |
| pours out of mortal things | E |
| only the parasitic shudder | F |
| when the new world sings | E |
| - | |
| As long as it still has life | G |
| the creature lifts its bone | H |
| and along the secret line | I |
| of the spine waves foam | J |
| Once more life s crown | K |
| like a lamb is sacrificed | L |
| cartilage under the knife | G |
| the age of the new born | M |
| - | |
| To free life from jail | N |
| and begin a new absolute | O |
| the mass of knotted days | P |
| must be linked by means of a flute | O |
| With human anguish | Q |
| the age rocks the wave s mass | R |
| and the golden measure s hissed | S |
| by a viper in the grass | R |
| - | |
| And new buds will swell intact | T |
| the green shoots engage | U |
| but your spine is cracked | T |
| my beautiful pitiful age | U |
| And grimacing dumbly you writhe | V |
| look back feebly with cruel jaws | W |
| a creature once supple and lithe | X |
| at the tracks left by your paws | W |
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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