I Would Like To Describe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEFGDHA IAEJ KLMNMOP F QRSBJT JJUV MMEAWXYY ZXA2 BB2C2D2E| I would like to describe the simplest emotion | A |
| joy or sadness | B |
| but not as others do | C |
| reaching for shafts of rain or sun | A |
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| I would like to describe a light | D |
| which is being born in me | E |
| but I know it does not resemble | F |
| any star | G |
| for it is not so bright | D |
| not so pure | H |
| and is uncertain | A |
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| I would like to describe courage | I |
| without dragging behind me a dusty lion | A |
| and also anxiety | E |
| without shaking a glass full of water | J |
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| to put it another way | K |
| I would give all metaphors | L |
| in return for one word | M |
| drawn out of my breast like a rib | N |
| for one word | M |
| contained within the boundaries | O |
| of my skin | P |
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| but apparently this is not possible | F |
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| and just to say I love | Q |
| I run around like mad | R |
| picking up handfuls of birds | S |
| and my tenderness | B |
| which after all is not made of water | J |
| asks the water for a face | T |
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| and anger | J |
| different from fire | J |
| borrows from it | U |
| a loquacious tongue | V |
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| so is blurred | M |
| so is blurred | M |
| in me | E |
| what white haired gentleman | A |
| separated once and for all | W |
| and said | X |
| this in the subject | Y |
| this is the object | Y |
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| we fall asleep | Z |
| with one hand under our head | X |
| and with the other in a mound of planets | A2 |
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| our feet abandon us | B |
| and taste the earth | B2 |
| with their tiny roots | C2 |
| which next morning | D2 |
| we tear out painfully | E |
Zbigniew Herbert
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