On A Fateful Day, An Unlucky Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CDEF GHBI JKHL MNOP QKKK RST CKCK CUVW| On a fateful day an unlucky time | A |
| Unannounced it may happen thus | B |
| Stifling blacker still than a monastery | C |
| Utter madness descends on us | B |
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| Bitter frost The night as a decency | C |
| Is observing the icy cold | D |
| In an armchair the ghost mumbles on and on | E |
| Still the same in his winter coat | F |
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| And the branch outside and the parquet floor | G |
| And his cheek and the poker's shade | H |
| All are shot with repentance and sleepiness | B |
| Of the blizzard that raved night and day | I |
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| Now the night is calm Bright and frosty night | J |
| Like a puppy suckling still blind | K |
| With the whole of their darkness the palisade | H |
| Drinks the sparkle of stars through the pines | L |
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| Seems it drips from them Seems they're glimmering | M |
| Seems the night is brimming with wax | N |
| And the pad of one fir warms another pad | O |
| And one hollow traces the next | P |
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| Seems this stillness this height's an elegiac wave | Q |
| A concern of a soul for a mind | K |
| The expectancy after an anxious 'respond' | K |
| Or an echo of different kind | K |
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| Seems it's dumb this enquiring of needles and trees | R |
| And the height is too deaf or too blue | S |
| And the shine on the frozen swerve of the road's | T |
| A reply to that pleading 'Helloooo ' | - |
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| Bitter frost The night as a decency | C |
| Is observing the icy cold | K |
| In his armchair the ghost mumbles endlessly | C |
| Still the same in his winter coat | K |
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| Oh his lips he is squeezing them horribly | C |
| Face in hands shaking ready to choke | U |
| Whirls of clues for the gifted biographer | V |
| In this pattern as dead as chalk | W |
Boris Pasternak
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