Do Not Fret, Do Not Cry, Do Not Tax... Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBEF EEGH EEEE EEIB JKLM| Do not fret do not cry do not tax | A |
| Your last strength and your heart do not torture | B |
| You're alive you're inside me intact | C |
| As a buttress a friend an adventure | B |
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| I've no fear of standing exposed | D |
| As a fraud in my faith in the future | B |
| It's not life not a union of souls | E |
| We are breaking off but a hoax mutual | F |
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| From straw mattresses' sick wretchedness | E |
| To the fresh air of wide open spaces | E |
| It's my brother and hand It's addressed | G |
| Like a letter to you crisp and bracing | H |
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| Like an envelope tear it across | E |
| With Horizon begin correspondence | E |
| Give your speech the sheer Alpian force | E |
| Overcome the sick sense of forlornness | E |
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| O'er the bowl of Bavarian lakes | E |
| With the marrow of osseous mountains | E |
| You will know I was not a glib fake | I |
| And of sugared assurances spouter | B |
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| Fare ye well and God bless you Our bond | J |
| And our honour aren't tamely domestic | K |
| Like a sprout in the sunlight unbend | L |
| And then things will assume a new aspect | M |
Boris Pasternak
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