Daedalus And Icarus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEF A GHCG A IJKL A MNDG O PQORST O UVWXYZA2 J| Daedalus says | A |
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| Go on sonny but remember that you are walking and not flying | B |
| the wings are just an ornament and you are stepping on a meadow | C |
| that warm gust is just the humid earth of summer | D |
| and that cold one is a brook | E |
| the sky is full of leaves and small animals | F |
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| Icarus says | A |
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| The eyes like two stones return straight to earth | G |
| and see a farmer who knocks asunder oily till | H |
| a grub which wiggles in a furrow | C |
| bad grub which cuts the bond of a plant with the earth | G |
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| Daedalus says | A |
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| Sonny this is not true The Cosmos is merely light | I |
| and earth is a bowl of shadows Look as here colors play | J |
| dust rises from above the sea smoke rises to the sky | K |
| of noblest atoms a rainbow sets itself now | L |
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| Icarus says | A |
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| Arms hurt father from this beating at vacuum | M |
| legs are getting numb and miss thorns and sharp stones | N |
| I cannot keep looking at the sun as you do father | D |
| I sunken whole in the dark rays of the earth | G |
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| Description of the catastrophe | O |
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| Now Icarus falls down head first | P |
| the last frame of him is a glimpse of a heal childlike small | Q |
| being swallowed by the devouring sea | O |
| Up above the father cries out the name | R |
| which no longer belongs to a neck or a head | S |
| but only to a remembrance | T |
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| Commentary | O |
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| He was so young did not understand that wings are just a metaphor | U |
| a bit of wax and feathers and a contempt for the laws of gravitation | V |
| I cannot hold a body at an elevation of a great many feet | W |
| The essence of the matter is in having our hearts | X |
| which are coursed by heavy blood | Y |
| fill with air | Z |
| and this very thing Icarus did not want to accept | A2 |
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| let us pray | J |
Zbigniew Herbert
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