Epitaph Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGE HIJK LE| I lived in those times For a thousand years | A |
| I have been dead Not fallen but hunted | B |
| When all human decency was imprisoned | C |
| I was free amongst the masked slaves | D |
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| I lived in those times yet I was free | E |
| I watched the river the earth the sky | F |
| Turning around me keeping their balance | G |
| The seasons provided their birds and their honey | E |
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| You who live what have you made of your luck | H |
| Do you regret the time when I struggled | I |
| Have you cultivated for the common harvest | J |
| Have you enriched the town I lived in | K |
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| Living men think nothing of me I am dead | L |
| Nothing survives of my spirit or my body | E |
Robert Desnos
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