About Troy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCE EFGHI CHCJ CCCCCKL HBC CC MN OD CC OP QR OS TUCV CW| A | |
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| Troy O Troy | B |
| an archeologist | C |
| will sift your ashes through his fingers | D |
| yet a fire occurred greater than that of the Iliad | C |
| for seven strings | E |
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| too few strings | E |
| one needs a chorus | F |
| a sea of laments | G |
| and thunder of mountains | H |
| rain of stone | I |
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| how to lead | C |
| people away from the ruins | H |
| how to lead | C |
| the chorus from poems | J |
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| thinks the faultless poet | C |
| respectably mute | C |
| as a pillar of salt | C |
| The song will escape unharmed | C |
| It escaped | C |
| with flaming wing | K |
| into a pure sky | L |
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| The moon rises over the ruins | H |
| Troy O Troy | B |
| The city is silent | C |
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| The poet struggles with his own shadow | C |
| The poet cries like a bird in the void | C |
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| The moon repeats its landscape | M |
| gentle metal in smoldering ash | N |
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| They walked along ravines of former streets | O |
| as if on a red sea of cinders | D |
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| and wind lifted the red dust | C |
| faithfully painted the sunset of the city | C |
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| They walked along ravines of former streets | O |
| they breathed on the frozen dawn in vain | P |
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| they said long years will pass | Q |
| before the first house stands here | R |
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| they walked along ravines of former streets | O |
| they thought they would find some traces | S |
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| a cripple plays | T |
| on a harmonica | U |
| about the braids of a willow | C |
| about a girl | V |
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| the poet is silent | C |
| rain falls | W |
Zbigniew Herbert
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