Tatiana's Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDBDEEFGGFHIJAAJKLK LK MNMNOPOOPQARA RQSOTO UVWVUOXY ZA2B2C2D2 E2D2E2BFE2XF2G2G2H2I 2J2I2K2K2AL2L2M2N2O2 O2 P2 GK2GK2| FROM 'EUGENE ONIEGIN' | A |
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| I write to you when that is said | B |
| What more is left for me to say | C |
| Now you are free I know too well | D |
| To heap contempt upon my head | B |
| Yet if some sparks of pity dwell | D |
| Within your breast you'll surely not | E |
| Abandon me to my hard lot | E |
| When first I saw you I desired | F |
| To hold my peace my shame 'tis true | G |
| Would ne'er have been revealed to you | G |
| Had life's conditions but inspired | F |
| One gleam of hope that you would come | H |
| To see us in our country home | I |
| From time to time so that I might | J |
| Hear but one word catch but one tone | A |
| And live by dreaming on alone | A |
| Till our next meeting day and night | J |
| But then it seemed there was no hope | K |
| Our rustic quiet bored you so | L |
| Folk said you were a misanthrope | K |
| And we we do not make a show | L |
| You found us narrow in our scope | K |
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| Why did you come to visit us | M |
| I n this forgotten quiet place | N |
| I need not have been tortured thus | M |
| If I had never seen your face | N |
| My inexperienced heart maybe | O |
| Had grown resigned to this dull life | P |
| And future years had brought to me | O |
| Some other love my destiny | O |
| An honoured mother and true wife | P |
| Another's Nay to none on earth | Q |
| Could I have given this heart of mine | A |
| By the decree of the Most High | R |
| And by Heaven's willing I am thine | A |
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| Allotted unto you was I | R |
| E'en from the moment of my birth | Q |
| And loyal to my future fate | S |
| And God I know sent you to be | O |
| My champion and my advocate | T |
| Till the grave closes over me | O |
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| Oft in my dreams you did appear | U |
| I loved you then before the days | V |
| When palpably I saw you here | W |
| I languished in your wondrous gaze | V |
| And in my heart your voice rang clear | U |
| Long since It was no dream to me | O |
| You came at once I understood | X |
| This swift confusion in my blood | Y |
| While my thoughts whispered ' Lo 'tis he ' | - |
| Was it not true Am I not sure | Z |
| You spoke with me in hours of peace | A2 |
| When I went visiting my poor | B2 |
| Or when I strove by prayer to ease | C2 |
| The pain in which my spirit toss'd | D2 |
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| Was not your image wont to rise | E2 |
| A vision sweet too quickly lost | D2 |
| To light my gloom Did not mine eyes | E2 |
| See you bend gently o'er my bed | B |
| Were not some words low whispered | F |
| Of love and hope Now in what guise | E2 |
| Come you As guardian angel good | X |
| Or tempter in some wily mood | F2 |
| speak and set my doubts at rest | G2 |
| What if all this should prove at best | G2 |
| The empty dream more light than froth | H2 |
| Of a heart simple and untried | I2 |
| Well be it so But from henceforth | J2 |
| I must to you my fate confide | I2 |
| Must weep my tears about your feet | K2 |
| And for your sheltering love entreat | K2 |
| Picture me now I sit alone | A |
| With none to heed or guess what ails | L2 |
| And now my very reason fails | L2 |
| I wait for you One glance of yours | M2 |
| Fresh hope unto my heart restores | N2 |
| Or else the cruel dream comes back | O2 |
| Of merited contempt Alack | O2 |
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| She seals the letter | P2 |
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| 'Tis done I scarce dare read it through | G |
| But overcome with shame and fright | K2 |
| I trust my honour now to you | G |
| And dare to think I trust aright | K2 |
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
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