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 D2YA| I | A |
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| I can't find the title | B |
| of a memory about you | C |
| with a hand torn from darkness | D |
| I step on fragments of faces | E |
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| soft friendly profiles | F |
| frozen into a hard contour | G |
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| circling above my head | H |
| empty as a forehead of air | I |
| a man's silhouette of black paper | J |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| living despite | K |
| living against | L |
| I reproach myself for the sin of forgetfulness | F |
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| you left an embrace like a superfluous sweater | J |
| a look like a question | M |
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| our hands won't transmit the shape of your hands | F |
| we squander them touching ordinary things | F |
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| calm as a mirror | J |
| not mildewed with breath | N |
| the eyes will send back the question | M |
| - | |
| every day I renew my sight | K |
| every day my touch grows | F |
| tickled by the proximity of so many things | F |
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| life bubbles over like blood | O |
| Shadows gently melt | P |
| let us not allow the dead to be killed | Q |
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| perhaps a cloud will transmit remembrance | F |
| a worn profile of Roman coins | F |
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| III | A |
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| the women on our street | R |
| were plain and good | S |
| they patiently carried from the markets | F |
| bouquets of nourishing vegetables | F |
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| the children on our street | R |
| scourge of cats | F |
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| the pigeons | F |
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| softly gray | T |
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| a Poet's statue was in the park | U |
| children would roll their hoops | F |
| and colorful shouts | F |
| birds sat on the Poet's hand | V |
| read his silence | F |
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| on summer evenings wives | F |
| waited patiently for lips | F |
| smelling of familiar tobacco | W |
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| women could not answer | J |
| their children will he return | X |
| when the city was setting | Y |
| they put the fire out with hands | F |
| pressing their eyes | F |
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| the children on our street | R |
| had a difficult death | N |
| pigeons fell lightly | Z |
| like shot down air | I |
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| now the lips of the Poet | A2 |
| form an empty horizon | M |
| birds children and wives cannot live | B2 |
| in the city's funereal shells | F |
| in cold eiderdowns of ashes | F |
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| the city stands over water | J |
| smooth as the memory of a mirror | J |
| it reflects in the water from the bottom | C2 |
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| and flies to a high star | D2 |
| where a distant fire is burning | Y |
| like a page of the i Iliad i | A |
Zbigniew Herbert
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