Bad Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CDED FGHG IJKJ LMNM EOPO QRSR TUVW XYZY| When Passion week started and Jesus | A |
| Came down to the city that day | B |
| Hosannahs burst out at his entry | C |
| And palm leaves were strewn in his way | B |
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| But days grow more stern and more stormy | C |
| No love can men's hardness unbend | D |
| Their brows are contemptuously frowning | E |
| And now comes the postscript the end | D |
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| Grey leaden and heavy the heavens | F |
| Were pressing on treetops and roofs | G |
| The Pharisees fawning like foxes | H |
| Were secretly searching for proofs | G |
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| The lords of the Temple let scoundrels | I |
| Pass judgement and those who at first | J |
| Had fervently followed and hailed him | K |
| Now all just as zealously cursed | J |
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| The crowd on the neighbouring sector | L |
| Was looking inside through the gate | M |
| They jostled intent on the outcome | N |
| Bewildered and willing to wait | M |
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| And whispers and rumours were creeping | E |
| Repeating the dominant theme | O |
| The flight into Egypt his childhood | P |
| Already seemed faint as a dream | O |
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| And Jesus remembered the desert | Q |
| The days in the wilderness spent | R |
| The tempting with power by Satan | S |
| That lofty majestic descent | R |
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| He thought of the wedding at Cana | T |
| The feast and the miracles and | U |
| How once he had walked on the waters | V |
| Through mist to a boat as on land | W |
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| The beggarly crowd in a hovel | X |
| The cellar to which he was led | Y |
| How started the candle flame guttered | Z |
| When Lazarus rose from the dead | Y |
Boris Pasternak
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