Zbigniew Herbert

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The Rain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCD EFGH IJKL MFE GGKGN NLOG PGQGLR NI STOS LUKGVL WLHQX

When my older brotherA
came back from warB
he had on his forehead a little silver starC
and under the starC
an abyssD
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a splinter of shrapnelE
hit him at VerdunF
or perhaps at Gr nwaldG
he d forgotten the detailsH
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he used to talk muchI
in many languagesJ
but he liked most of allK
the language of historyL
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until losing breathM
he commanded his dead pals to runF
Roland Kowaski HannibalE
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he shoutedG
that this was the last crusadeG
that Carthage soon would fallK
and then sobbing confessedG
that Napoleon did not like himN
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we looked at himN
getting paler and palerL
abandoned by his sensesO
he turned slowly into a monumentG
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into musical shells of earsP
entered a stone forestG
and the skin of his faceQ
was securedG
with the blind dryL
buttons of eyesR
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nothing was left himN
but touchI
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what storiesS
he told with his handsT
in the right he had romancesO
in the left soldier s memoriesS
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they took my brotherL
and carried him out of townU
he returns every fallK
slim and very quietG
he does not want to come inV
he knocks at the window for meL
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we walk together in the streetsW
and he recites to meL
improbable talesH
touching my faceQ
with blind fingers of rainX

Zbigniew Herbert



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