Threshold Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD DEFG CBH IJK| I was not aware of the moment | A |
| when I first crossed the threshold of this life | B |
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| What was the power that made me open out into this vast mystery | C |
| like a bud in the forest at midnight | D |
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| When in the morning I looked upon the light | D |
| I felt in a moment that I was no stranger in this world | E |
| that the inscrutable without name and form | F |
| had taken me in its arms in the form of my own mother | G |
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| Even so in death the same unknown will appear as ever known to me | C |
| And because I love this life | B |
| I know I shall love death as well | H |
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| The child cries out | I |
| when from the right breast the mother takes it away | J |
| in the very next moment to find in the left one its consolation | K |
Rabindranath Tagore
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