A Knocker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGB HIJK ILMA LNNO ILPMA| There are those who grow | A |
| gardens in their heads | B |
| paths lead from their hair | C |
| to sunny and white cities | D |
| - | |
| it's easy for them to write | E |
| they close their eyes | F |
| immediately schools of images | G |
| stream down their foreheads | B |
| - | |
| my imagination | H |
| is a piece of board | I |
| my sole instrument | J |
| is a wooden stick | K |
| - | |
| I strike the board | I |
| it answer me | L |
| yes yes | M |
| no no | A |
| - | |
| for others the green bell of a tree | L |
| the blue bell of water | N |
| I have a knocker | N |
| from unprotected gardens | O |
| - | |
| I thump on the board | I |
| and it prompts me | L |
| with the moralists dry poem | P |
| yes yes | M |
| no no | A |
Zbigniew Herbert
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