First The Dog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABACDE CFGCH IJKLADA MNCDOPFQ| to Laika | A |
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| So first the faithful dog will go | A |
| and after it a pig or ass | B |
| through the black grass will beat a track | A |
| along it will the first man steal | C |
| who with iron hand will smother | D |
| on his glass brow a drop of fear | E |
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| so first the dog honest mongrel | C |
| which has never abandoned us | F |
| dreaming of earthly lamps and bones | G |
| will fall asleep in its whirling kennel | C |
| its warm blood boiling drying away | H |
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| but we behind the dog and second | I |
| dog which guides us on a leash | J |
| we with the astronauts white cane | K |
| awkwardly we bump into stars | L |
| we see nothing we hear nothing | A |
| we beat with our fists on the dark ether | D |
| on all the wavelengths is a whining | A |
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| everything we can carry on board | M |
| through the cinders of dark worlds | N |
| name of man scent of apple | C |
| acorn of sound quarter of colour | D |
| should all be saved for our return | O |
| so we can find the route in an instant | P |
| when the blind dog leading us | F |
| barks at the earth as at the moon | Q |
Zbigniew Herbert
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