The Straitening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCD EFGH IJHFKELM LM FFNOP HQRSTU LF VFFNFWT X FIFYZZMA2 PM B2B2EC2 D2D2EHR HVR FKIME2FR FF2G2H2FF I2E2PJ2BK2L2PFFE2V FR FM2FKPPF2I E2E2FG2N2O2PPSU SF E2P2BN2B2 B2Q2Q2CN2XA2 A2W FR2BFMFEHHHHS2 N2S2 T2FT2S2RQT2X FBB BHR HBJENU2 HR ZOF OQFBRH2XD FIA | |
- | |
Driven into the | B |
terrain | C |
with the unmistakable track | D |
- | |
grass written asunder The stones white | E |
with the shadows of grassblades | F |
Do not read any more look | G |
Do not look any more go | H |
- | |
Go your hour | I |
has no sisters you are | J |
are at home A wheel slow | H |
rolls out of itself the spokes | F |
climb | K |
climb on a blackish field the night | E |
needs no stars nowhere | L |
does anyone ask after you | M |
- | |
- | |
Nowhere | L |
does anyone ask after you | M |
- | |
The place where they lay it has | F |
a name it has | F |
none They did not lie there Something | N |
lay between them They | O |
did not see through it | P |
- | |
Did not see no | H |
spoke of | Q |
words None | R |
awoke | S |
sleep | T |
came over them | U |
- | |
- | |
Came came Nowhere | L |
anyone asks | F |
- | |
It is I I | V |
I lay between you I was | F |
open was | F |
audible ticked at you your breathing | N |
obeyed it is | F |
I still but then | W |
you are asleep | T |
- | |
- | |
It is I still | X |
- | |
years | F |
years years a finger | I |
feels down and up feels | F |
around | Y |
seams palpable here | Z |
it is split wide open here | Z |
it grew together again who | M |
covered it up | A2 |
- | |
- | |
Covered it | P |
up who | M |
- | |
Came came | B2 |
Came a word came | B2 |
came through the night | E |
wanted to shine wanted to shine | C2 |
- | |
Ash | D2 |
Ash ash | D2 |
Night | E |
Night and night Go | H |
to the eye the moist one | R |
- | |
- | |
Go | H |
to the eye | V |
the moist one | R |
- | |
Gales | F |
Gales from the beginning of time | K |
whirl of particles the other | I |
you | M |
know it though we | E2 |
read it in the book was | F |
opinion | R |
- | |
Was was | F |
opinion How | F2 |
did we touch | G2 |
each other each other with | H2 |
these | F |
hands | F |
- | |
There was written too that | I2 |
Where We | E2 |
put a silence over it | P |
stilled with poison great | J2 |
a | B |
green | K2 |
silence a sepal an | L2 |
idea of vegetation attached to it | P |
green yes | F |
attached yes | F |
under a crafty | E2 |
sky | V |
- | |
Of yes | F |
vegetation | R |
- | |
Yes | F |
Gales whirl of part | M2 |
icles there was | F |
time left time | K |
to try it out with the stone it | P |
was hospitable it | P |
did not cut in How | F2 |
lucky we were | I |
- | |
Grainy | E2 |
grainy and stringy Stalky | E2 |
dense | F |
grapy and radiant kidneyish | G2 |
flattish and | N2 |
lumpy loose tang | O2 |
led he it | P |
did not cut in it | P |
spoke | S |
willingly spoke to dry eyes before closing them | U |
- | |
Spoke spoke | S |
Was was | F |
- | |
We | E2 |
would not let go stood | P2 |
in the midst a | B |
porous edifice and | N2 |
it came | B2 |
- | |
Came at us came | B2 |
through us patched | Q2 |
invisibly patched | Q2 |
away at the last membrane | C |
and | N2 |
the world a millicrystal | X |
shot up shot up | A2 |
- | |
- | |
Shot up shot up | A2 |
Then | W |
- | |
Nights demixed Circles | F |
green or blue scarlet | R2 |
squares the | B |
world puts its inmost reserves | F |
into the game with the new | M |
hours Circles | F |
red or black bright | E |
squares no | H |
flight shadow | H |
no | H |
measuring table no | H |
smoke soul ascends or joins in | S2 |
- | |
- | |
Ascends and | N2 |
joins in | S2 |
- | |
At owl's flight near | T2 |
the petrified scabs | F |
near | T2 |
our fled hands in | S2 |
the latest rejection | R |
above | Q |
the rifle range near | T2 |
the buried wall | X |
- | |
visible once | F |
more the | B |
grooves the | B |
- | |
choirs at that time the | B |
psalms Ho ho | H |
sannah | R |
- | |
So | H |
there are temples yet A | B |
star | J |
probably still has light | E |
Nothing | N |
nothing is lost | U2 |
- | |
Ho | H |
sannah | R |
- | |
At owl's flight here | Z |
the conversations day grey | O |
of the water level traces | F |
- | |
- | |
day grey | O |
of | Q |
the water level traces | F |
Driven into the | B |
terrain | R |
with | H2 |
the unmistakable | X |
track | D |
- | |
Grass | F |
grass written asunder | I |
Paul Celan
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about The Straitening poem by Paul Celan
Best Poems of Paul Celan