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The Human Face Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I Soon	A
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Of all the springtimes of the world	B
This one is the ugliest	C
Of all of my ways of being	D
To be trusting is the best	E
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Grass pushes up snow	F
Like the stone of a tomb	G
But I sleep within the storm	H
And awaken eyes bright	I
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Slowness brief time ends	J
Where all streets must pass	K
Through my innermost recesses	L
So that I would meet someone	M
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I don t listen to monsters	N
I know them and all that they say	O
I see only beautiful faces	L
Good faces sure of themselves	P
Certain soon to ruin their masters	N
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II The women s role	Q
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As they sing the maids dash forward	R
To tidy up the killing fields	S
Well powdered girls quickly to their knees	T
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Their hands reaching for the fresh air	U
Are blue like never before	V
What a glorious day	O
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Look at their hands the dead	W
Look at their liquid eyes	X
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This is the toilet of transience	Y
The final toilet of life	Z
Stones sink and disappear	A2
In the vast primal waters	N
The final toilet of time	B2
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Hardly a memory remains	C2
the dried up well of virtue	D2
In the long oppressive absences	E2
One surrenders to tender flesh	F2
Under the spell of weakness	G2
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III As deep as the silence	Y
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As deep as the silence	Y
Of a corpse under ground	H2
With nothing but darkness in mind	I2
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As dull and deaf	J2
As autumn by the pond	K2
Covered with stale shame	L2
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Poison deprived of its flower	M2
And of its golden beasts	N2
out its night onto man	O2
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IV Patience	Y
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You my patient one	M
My patience	Y
My parent	P2
Head held high and proudly	Q2
Organ of the sluggish night	I
Bow down	R2
Concealing all of heaven	M
And its favor	M2
Prepare for vengeance	Y
A bed where I'll be born	S2
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V First march the voice of another	M2
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Laughing at sky and planets	T2
Drunk with their confidence	Y
The wise men wish for sons	U2
And for sons from their sons	U2
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Until they all perish in vain	V2
Time burdens only fools	W2
While Hell alone prospers	N
And the wise men are absurd	R
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VI A wolf	X2
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Day surprises me and night scares me	Q2
haunts me and winter follows me	Q2
An animal walking on the snow has placed	Y2
Its paws in the sand or in the mud	Z2
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Its paws have traveled	A3
From further afar than my own steps	B3
On a path where death	C3
Has the imprints of life	Z
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VII A flawless fire	M2
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The threat under the red sky	D3
Came from below jaws	E3
And scales and links	F3
Of a slippery heavy chain	V2
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Life was spread about generously	Q2
So that death took seriously	Q2
The debt it was paid without a thought	G3
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Death was the God of love	H3
And the conquerors in a kiss	I3
Swooned upon their victims	J3
Corruption gained courage	K3
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And yet beneath the red sky	D3
Under the appetites for blood	Z2
Under the dismal starvation	M
The cavern closed	L3
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The kind earth filled	M3
The graves dug in advance	N3
Children were no longer afraid	O3
Of maternal depths	P3
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And madness and stupidity	Q2
And vulgarity make way	O
For humankind and brotherhood	Q3
No longer fighting against life	Z
For an everlasting humankind	I2
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VIII Liberty	Q2
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On my school notebooks	R3
On my desk on the trees	T
On the sand on the snow	F
I write your name	L2
On all the read pages	L
On all the empty pages	L
Stone blood paper or ash	S3
I write your name	L2
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On the golden images	L
On the weapons of warriors	N
On the crown of kings	T3
I write your name	L2
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On the jungle and the desert	U3
On the nests on the broom	G
On the echo of my childhood	Q3
I write your name	L2
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On the wonders of nights	V3
On the white bread of days	W3
On the seasons betrothed	Q3
I write your name	L2
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d'azur On all my blue rags	X3
On the sun molded pond	Q3
On the moon enlivened lake	Y3
I write your name	L2
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On the fields on the horizon	M
On the wings of birds	Z3
And on the mill of shadows	A4
I write your name	L2
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On every burst of dawn	B4
On the sea on the boats	C4
On the insane mountain	M
I write your name	L2
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On the foam of clouds	D4
On the sweat of the storm	H
On the rain thick and insipid	Q3
I write your name	L2
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On the shimmering shapes	E4
On the colorful bells	F4
On the physical truth	G4
I write your name	L2
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On the alert pathways	W3
On the wide spread roads	H4
On the overflowing places	L
I write your name	L2
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On the lamp that is ignited	Q3
On the lamp that is dimmed	Q3
On my reunited houses	L
I write your name	L2
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On the fruit cut in two	D2
Of the mirror and of my room	G
On my bed an empty shell	I4
I write your name	L2
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On my dog young and greedy	Q3
On his pricked up ears	J4
On his clumsy paw	K4
I write your name	L2
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On the springboard of my door	V
On the familiar objects	L4
On the wave of blessed fire	M2
I write your name	L2
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On all harmonious flesh	F2
On the face of my friends	J
On every out stretched hand	Q3
I write your name	L2
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On the window pane of surprises	E2
On the careful lips	M4
Well above silence	Y
I write your name	L2
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On my destroyed shelter	M2
On my collapsed beacon	M
On the walls of my weariness	G2
I write your name	L2
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On absence without want	Q3
On naked solitude	Q3
On the steps of death	C3
I write your name	L2
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On regained health	N4
On vanished risk	O4
On hope free from memory	Q3
I write your name	L2
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And by the power of one word	Q3
I begin my life again	P4
I am born to know you	D2
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To call you by name Liberty	Q3