Mr. Cogito And The Imagination Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD CE FC CG HHCI CCG JKLM NBOP| Mr Cogito never trusted | A |
| tricks of the imagination | B |
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| the piano at the top of the Alps | C |
| played false concerts for him | D |
| - | |
| he didn't appreciate labyrinths | C |
| the Sphinx filled him with loathing | E |
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| he lived in a house with no basement | F |
| without mirrors of dialectics | C |
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| jungles of tangled images | C |
| were not his home | G |
| - | |
| he would rarely soar | H |
| on the wings of metaphor | H |
| and then he fell like Icarus | C |
| into the embrace of the Great Mother | I |
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| he adored tautologies | C |
| explanations | C |
| idem per idem | G |
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| that a bird is a bird | J |
| slavery means slavery | K |
| a knife is a knife | L |
| death remains death | M |
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| he loved | N |
| the flat horizon | B |
| a straight line | O |
| the gravity of the earth | P |
Zbigniew Herbert
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