An Answer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKL MNOJPD QJRST QUVOCW XJYZA2B2 C2WD2E2C| This will be a night in deep snow | A |
| which has the power to muffle steps | B |
| in deep shadow transforming | C |
| bodies to two puddles of darkness | D |
| we lie holding our breath | E |
| and even the slightest whisper of thought | F |
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| if we are not tracked down by wolves | G |
| and the man in a Russian sheepskin who swings | H |
| quick firing death on his chest | I |
| we must spring and run | J |
| in the clapping of short dry salvos | K |
| to that other longed for shore | L |
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| the earth is the same everywhere | M |
| wisdom teaches everywhere the man | N |
| weeps with white tears | O |
| mothers rock their children | J |
| the moon rises | P |
| and builds a white house for us | D |
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| this will be night after hard reality | Q |
| a conspiracy of the imagination | J |
| it has a taste of bread and lightness of vodka | R |
| but the choice to remain here | S |
| is confirmed by every dream about palm trees | T |
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| the dream is interrupted suddenly by the arrival of three | Q |
| tall men of rubber and iron | U |
| they will check your name your fear | V |
| order you to go downstairs | O |
| they won t allow you to take anything | C |
| but the compassionate face of the janitor | W |
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| Hellenic Roman Medieval | X |
| East Indian Elizabethan Italian | J |
| perhaps above all French | Y |
| a bit of Weimar and Versailles | Z |
| we carry so many homelands | A2 |
| on the shoulders of a single earth | B2 |
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| but the only one guarded | C2 |
| by the most singular number | W |
| is here where they will trample you into the ground | D2 |
| or with boldly ringing spade | E2 |
| make a large pit for your longing | C |
Zbigniew Herbert
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