This Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFCG HCIC JICI| This is what I most want | A |
| unpursued alone | B |
| to reach beyond the light | C |
| that I am furthest from | D |
| - | |
| And for you to shine there | E |
| no other happiness | F |
| and learn from starlight | C |
| what its fire might suggest | G |
| - | |
| A star burns as a star | H |
| light becomes light | C |
| because our murmuring | I |
| strengthens us and warms the night | C |
| - | |
| And I want to say to you | J |
| my little one whispering | I |
| I can only lift you towards the light | C |
| by means of this babbling | I |
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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