The Drowned Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFE GHGH IGJ KLKLMNMN GOGOPQPQ KRKRGFG KSKSGTGT RGRG GU KGKGPVPV GPGPWTXT GYGYKTKT G| Children running into izba | A |
| Calling father dripping sweat | B |
| 'Daddy daddy come there is a | C |
| Deadman caught inside our net ' | D |
| 'Fancy fancy fabrication ' | D |
| Grumbled off their weary Pa | E |
| 'Have these imps imagination | F |
| Deadman really ya ha ha | E |
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| 'Well the court may come to bother | G |
| What'll I say before the judge | H |
| Hey you brats go have your mother | G |
| Bring my coat I better trudge | H |
| Show me where ' 'Right there Dad farther ' | - |
| On the sand where netting ropes | I |
| Lay spread out the peasant father | G |
| Saw the veritable corpse | J |
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| Badly mangled ugly frightening | K |
| Blue and swollen on each side | L |
| Has he fished in storm and lightning | K |
| Or committed suicide | L |
| Could this be a careless drunkard | M |
| Or a mermaid seeking monk | N |
| Or a merchandizer conquered | M |
| By some bandits robbed and sunk | N |
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| To the peasant what's it matter | G |
| Quick he grabs the dead man's hair | O |
| Drags his body to the water | G |
| Looks around nobody's there | O |
| Good relieved of the concern he | P |
| Shoves his paddle at a loss | Q |
| While the stiff resumes his journey | P |
| Down the stream for grave and cross | Q |
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| Long the dead man as one living | K |
| Rocked on waves amid the foam | R |
| Surly as he watched him leaving | K |
| Soon our peasant headed home | R |
| 'Come you pups let's go don't scatter | G |
| Each of you will get his bun | F |
| But remember just you chatter | G |
| And I'll whip you every one ' | - |
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| Dark and stormy it was turning | K |
| High the river ran in gloom | S |
| Now the torch has finished burning | K |
| In the peasant's smoky room | S |
| Kids asleep the wife aslumber | G |
| He lies listening to the rain | T |
| Bang he hears a sudden comer | G |
| Knocking on the window pane | T |
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| 'What the ' 'Let me in there master ' | - |
| 'Damn you found the time to roam | R |
| Well what is it your disaster | G |
| Let you in It's dark at home | R |
| Dark and crowded What a pest you are | G |
| Where'd I put you in my cot ' | - |
| Slowly with a lazy gesture | G |
| He lifts up the pane and what | U |
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| Through the clouds the moon was showing | K |
| Well the naked man was there | G |
| Down his hair the water flowing | K |
| Wide his eyes unmoved the stare | G |
| Numb the dreadful looking body | P |
| Arms were hanging feeble thin | V |
| Crabs and cancers black and bloody | P |
| Sucked into the swollen skin | V |
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| As the peasant slammed the shutter | G |
| Recognized his visitant | P |
| Horror struck he could but mutter | G |
| 'Blast you ' and began to pant | P |
| He was shuddering awful chaos | W |
| All night through stirred in his brain | T |
| While the knocking shook the house | X |
| By the gates and at the pane | T |
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| People tell a dreadful rumor | G |
| Every year the peasant say | Y |
| Waiting in the worst of humor | G |
| For his visitor that day | Y |
| As the rainstorm is increasing | K |
| Nightfall brings a hurricane | T |
| And the drowned man knocks unceasing | K |
| By the gates and at the pane | T |
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| Translated by Genia Gurarie | G |
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
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