Jerome Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEC AFGAHC IJAKLA KMNOAP QRSTUF VWKKIX AVEach day brings its toad each night its dragon | A |
Der heilige Hieronymus his lion is at the zoo | B |
Listens listens All the long soft summer day | C |
Dreams affright his couch the deep boils like a pot | D |
As the sun sets the last patient rises | E |
Says to him Father trembles turns away | C |
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Often to the lion the saint said Son | A |
To the man the saint says but the man is gone | F |
Under a plaque of Gradiva at gloaming | G |
The old man boils an egg When he has eaten | A |
He listens a while The patients have not stopped | H |
At midnight he lies down where his patients lay | C |
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All night the old man whispers to the night | I |
It listens evenly The great armored paws | J |
Of its forelegs put together in reflection | A |
It thinks Where Ego was there Id shall be | K |
The world wrestles with it and is changed into it | L |
And after a long time changes it The dragon | A |
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Listens as the old man says at dawn I see | K |
There is an old man naked in a desert by a cliff | M |
He has set out his books his hat his ink his shears | N |
Among scorpions toads the wild beasts of the desert | O |
I lie beside him I am a lion | A |
He kneels listening He holds in his left hand | P |
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The stone with which he beats his breat and holds | Q |
In his right hand the pen with which he puts | R |
Into his book the words of the angel | S |
The angel up into whose face he looks | T |
But the angel does not speak He looks into the face | U |
Of the night and the night says but the night is gone | F |
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He has slept At morning when man's flesh is young | V |
And man's soul thankful for it knows not what | W |
The air is washed and smells of boiling coffee | K |
And the sun lights it The old man walks placidly | K |
To the grocer's walks on under leaves in light | I |
To a lynx a leopard he has come | X |
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The man holds out a lump of liver to the lion | A |
And the lion licks the man's hand with his tongue | V |
Randall Jarrell
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