Three Poems By Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FG HIJ A KLF JM FF JNM KFF OPQ FF A RSFF RF F T UFFVF FFW JXYFF RNZI A2MB2FF JJC2 D2YO

IA
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I can't find the titleB
of a memory about youC
with a hand torn from darknessD
I step on fragments of facesE
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soft friendly profilesF
frozen into a hard contourG
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circling above my headH
empty as a forehead of airI
a man's silhouette of black paperJ
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IIA
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living despiteK
living againstL
I reproach myself for the sin of forgetfulnessF
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you left an embrace like a superfluous sweaterJ
a look like a questionM
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our hands won't transmit the shape of your handsF
we squander them touching ordinary thingsF
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calm as a mirrorJ
not mildewed with breathN
the eyes will send back the questionM
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every day I renew my sightK
every day my touch growsF
tickled by the proximity of so many thingsF
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life bubbles over like bloodO
Shadows gently meltP
let us not allow the dead to be killedQ
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perhaps a cloud will transmit remembranceF
a worn profile of Roman coinsF
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IIIA
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the women on our streetR
were plain and goodS
they patiently carried from the marketsF
bouquets of nourishing vegetablesF
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the children on our streetR
scourge of catsF
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the pigeonsF
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softly grayT
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a Poet's statue was in the parkU
children would roll their hoopsF
and colorful shoutsF
birds sat on the Poet's handV
read his silenceF
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on summer evenings wivesF
waited patiently for lipsF
smelling of familiar tobaccoW
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women could not answerJ
their children will he returnX
when the city was settingY
they put the fire out with handsF
pressing their eyesF
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the children on our streetR
had a difficult deathN
pigeons fell lightlyZ
like shot down airI
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now the lips of the PoetA2
form an empty horizonM
birds children and wives cannot liveB2
in the city's funereal shellsF
in cold eiderdowns of ashesF
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the city stands over waterJ
smooth as the memory of a mirrorJ
it reflects in the water from the bottomC2
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and flies to a high starD2
where a distant fire is burningY
like a page of the IliadO

Zbigniew Herbert



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