Tristia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFHIJIJ DKDLMINO PQPRONOS| I have studied the Science of departures | A |
| in night s sorrows when a woman s hair falls down | B |
| The oxen chew there s the waiting pure | C |
| in the last hours of vigil in the town | B |
| and I reverence night s ritual cock crowing | D |
| when reddened eyes lift sorrow s load and choose | E |
| to stare at distance and a woman s crying | D |
| is mingled with the singing of the Muse | E |
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| Who knows when the word departure is spoken | F |
| what kind of separation is at hand | G |
| or of what that cock crow is a token | F |
| when a fire on the Acropolis lights the ground | H |
| and why at the dawning of a new life | I |
| when the ox chews lazily in its stall | J |
| the cock the herald of the new life | I |
| flaps his wings on the city wall | J |
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| I like the monotony of spinning | D |
| the shuttle moves to and fro | K |
| the spindle hums Look barefoot Delia s running | D |
| to meet you like swansdown on the road | L |
| How threadbare the language of joy s game | M |
| how meagre the foundation of our life | I |
| Everything was and is repeated again | N |
| it s the flash of recognition brings delight | O |
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| So be it on a dish of clean earthenware | P |
| like a flattened squirrel s pelt a shape | Q |
| forms a small transparent figure where | P |
| a girl s face bends to gaze at the wax s fate | R |
| Not for us to prophesy Erebus Brother of Night | O |
| Wax is for women Bronze is for men | N |
| Our fate is only given in fight | O |
| to die by divination is given to them | S |
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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