Report From Paradise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEC FGCHIJKLM NOPQR STRR| In paradise the work week is fixed at thirty hours | A |
| salaries are higher prices steadily go down | B |
| manual labour is not tiring because of reduced gravity | C |
| chopping wood is no harder than typing | D |
| the social system is stable and the rulers are wise | E |
| really in paradise one is better off than in whatever country | C |
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| At first it was to have been different | F |
| luminous circles choirs and degrees of abstraction | G |
| but they were not able to separate exactly | C |
| the soul from the flesh and so it would come here | H |
| with a drop of fat a thread of muscle | I |
| it was necessary to face the consequences | J |
| to mix a grain of the absolute with a grain of clay | K |
| one more departure from doctrine the last departure | L |
| only John foresaw it you will be resurrected in the flesh | M |
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| not many behold God | N |
| he is only for those of per cent pneuma | O |
| the rest listen to communiqu s about miracles and floods | P |
| some day God will be seen by all | Q |
| when it will happen nobody knows | R |
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| As it is now every Saturday at noon | S |
| sirens sweetly bellow | T |
| and from the factories go the heavenly proletarians | R |
| awkwardly under their arms they carry their wings like violins | R |
Zbigniew Herbert
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