A Ballad That We Do Not Perish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DE FGH I DJK LKM INODP| Those who sailed at dawn | A |
| but will never return | B |
| left their trace on a wave | C |
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| a shell fell to the bottom of the sea | D |
| beautiful as lips turned to stone | E |
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| those who walked on a sandy road | F |
| but could not reach the shuttered windows | G |
| though they already saw the roofs | H |
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| they have found shelter in a bell of air | I |
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| but those who leave behind only | D |
| a room grown cold a few books | J |
| an empty inkwell white paper | K |
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| in truth they have not completely died | L |
| their whisper travels through thickets of wallpaper | K |
| their level head still lives in the ceiling | M |
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| their paradise was made of air | I |
| of water lime and earth an angel of wind | N |
| will pulverize the body in its hand | O |
| they will be | D |
| carried over the meadows of this world | P |
Zbigniew Herbert
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