It Is Not Seemly To Be Famous... Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIJ KLKL FMCM NOPO QRKR| It is not seemly to be famous | A |
| Celebrity does not exalt | B |
| There is no need to hoard your writings | C |
| And to preserve them in a vault | B |
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| To give your all this is creation | D |
| And not to deafen and eclipse | E |
| How shameful when you have no meaning | F |
| To be on everybody's lips | E |
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| Try not to live as a pretender | G |
| But so to manage your affairs | H |
| That you are loved by wide expanses | I |
| And hear the call of future years | J |
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| Leave blanks in life not in your papers | K |
| And do not ever hesitate | L |
| To pencil out whole chunks whole chapters | K |
| Of your existence of your fate | L |
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| Into obscurity retiring | F |
| Try your development to hide | M |
| As autumn mist on early mornings | C |
| Conceals the dreaming countryside | M |
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| Another step by step will follow | N |
| The living imprint of your feet | O |
| But you yourself must not distinguish | P |
| Your victory from your defeat | O |
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| And never for a single moment | Q |
| Betray your credo or pretend | R |
| But be alive this only matters | K |
| Alive and burning to the end | R |
Boris Pasternak
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