What Shall I Do With This Body They Gave Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD AA EF GG| What shall I do with this body they gave me | A |
| so much my own so intimate with me | A |
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| For being alive for the joy of calm breath | B |
| tell me who should I bless | C |
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| I am the flower and the gardener as well | D |
| and am not solitary in earth s cell | D |
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| My living warmth exhaled you can see | A |
| on the clear glass of eternity | A |
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| A pattern set down | E |
| until now unknown | F |
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| Breath evaporates without trace | G |
| but form no one can deface | G |
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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