The Ardennes Forest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEG HIJKLJMM NMOBMMMN NPCDQMRM SMMEMSMRT| Cup your hands to scoop up sleep | A |
| as you would draw a grain of water | B |
| and the forest will come a green cloud | C |
| a birch trunk like a chord of light | D |
| and a thousand eyelids fluttering | E |
| with forgotten leafy speech | F |
| then you will recall the white morning | E |
| when you waited for the opening of the gates | G |
| - | |
| you know this land is opened by a bird | H |
| that sleeps in a tree and the tree in the earth | I |
| but here is a spring of new questions | J |
| underfoot the currents of bad roots | K |
| look at the pattern on the bark where | L |
| a chord of music tightens | J |
| the lute player who presses the frets | M |
| so the silent resounds | M |
| - | |
| push away leaves a wild strawberry | N |
| dew on a leaf the comb of grass | M |
| further a wing of a yellow damselfly | O |
| and an ant burying its sister | B |
| a wild pear sweetly ripens | M |
| above the treacheries of belladonnas | M |
| without waiting for greater rewards | M |
| sit under the tree | N |
| - | |
| cup your hands to draw up memory | N |
| of the dead names dried grain | P |
| again the forest a charred cloud | C |
| forehead branded by black light | D |
| and a thousand lids pressed | Q |
| tightly on motionless eyeballs | M |
| a tree and the air broken | R |
| betrayed faith of empty shelters | M |
| - | |
| that other forest is for us is for you | S |
| the dead also ask for fairy tales | M |
| for a handful of herbs water of memories | M |
| therefore by needles by rustling | E |
| and faint threads of fragrances | M |
| no matter that a branch stops you | S |
| a shadow leads you through winding passages | M |
| you will find and open | R |
| our Ardennes Forest | T |
Zbigniew Herbert
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
<< Home Poem
Objects Poem>>
About The Ardennes Forest
The Ardennes Forest is a poem by Zbigniew Herbert. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about The Ardennes Forest poem by Zbigniew Herbert
Best Poems of Zbigniew Herbert