To Live Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDECE FGH IJKLMCNOCC CCFPQRCS TCC CWe 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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