Rovigo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHHIJKLBMNOPIQ RSTUBHSB| ROVIGO STATION Unclear associations A drama of Goethe | A |
| or something from Byron I traveled through Rovigo | B |
| n times and exactly at the nth time I understood | C |
| that in my inner geography it is a special | D |
| place although it certainly yields | E |
| to Florence I never touched it with my living foot | F |
| and Rovigo was always approaching or fleeing behind | G |
| At the time I was filled with love for the Altichiera | H |
| at the Oratory of San Giorgio in Padua and for Ferrara | H |
| which I loved because it reminded me | I |
| of the pillaged city of my fathers I lived stretched | J |
| between the past and the present moment | K |
| many times crucified by a place and a time | L |
| And yet happy firmly trusting | B |
| the sacrifice will not be wasted | M |
| Rovigo wasn t distinguished by anything particular it was | N |
| a masterpiece of mediocrity straight streets plain houses | O |
| only before or after the city depending on the train s direction | P |
| a mountain suddenly rose from the plain sliced open by a red quarry | I |
| like an Easter Ham surrounded by kale | Q |
| besides that nothing to amuse sadden dazzle the eye | R |
| And yet it was a city of blood and stone just like the others | S |
| a city in which yesterday somebody died someone went mad | T |
| someone coughed hopelessly throughout the night | U |
| ACCOMPANIED BY WHICH BELLS DO YOU APPEAR ROVIGO | B |
| Reduced to a station to a comma a crossed letter | H |
| nothing but a station arrivi partenze | S |
| and why do I think about you Rovigo Rovigo | B |
Zbigniew Herbert
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