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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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