To Live Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDECE FGH IJKLMCNOCC CCFPQRCS TCC C| We both have our hands to give | A |
| Take mine I shall lead you afar | B |
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| I have lived several times my face hasw changed | C |
| With every threshold I have crossed and every hand clasped Familial springtime was reborn | D |
| Keeping for itself and for me its perishable snow | E |
| Death and the betrothed | C |
| The future with five fingers clenched and letting go | E |
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| My age always gave me | F |
| New reasons for living through others | G |
| For having the blood of man other's heart in mine | H |
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| Oh the lucid fellow I was and that I am | I |
| Before the pallor of frail blind girls | J |
| Lovelier than the delicate worn moon so fair | K |
| By the reflection of life's ways | L |
| A trail of moss anf trees | M |
| Of mist and morning dew | C |
| Of the young body which does not rise alone | N |
| To its place on earth | O |
| Wind cold and rain cradle it | C |
| Summer makes a man of it | C |
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| Presesence is my virtue in each visible hand | C |
| Only death is solitude | C |
| From delight to fury from fury to clarity | F |
| I make myself whole through all beings | P |
| Through all weather on the earth and in the clouds | Q |
| Through the passing seasons I am young | R |
| And strong for having lived | C |
| I am young my blood rises over my ruins | S |
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| We have our hands to entwine Nothing can ever seduce better | T |
| Tahn our bonding to each other a forest | C |
| Returning earth to sky and the sky to night | C |
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| To the night which prepares an unending day | C |
Paul Eluard
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