The Wind(four Fragments Concerning Blok) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGDD HIJD KDLD MDND OPMQ RSBT DUVW XYZY A2DB2C2 D2E2 F2XJY G2H2DDDDI2 JYXY IRDR JIJJ2 DDDK2 JVJV L2M2L2N2 DDDDA | |
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Who ll be honoured and praised | B |
who ll be dead and abused | C |
that s only known these days | D |
to power s sycophantic crew | E |
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To honour Pushkin or not | F |
perhaps no one would know | G |
were it not for their dissertations | D |
that shed light on our darkness so | D |
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But Blok happily isn t like that | H |
his case is a different one | I |
He didn t come down from Sinai | J |
or adopt us as his sons | D |
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Eternal owned by no programme | K |
beyond systems and schools | D |
he s not been manufactured | L |
or thrust down our throats by fools | D |
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As the wind like the wind Like the wind | M |
that shrieked on the estate in those days | D |
when Fil ka the postilion still galloped | N |
at the head of a team of six bays | D |
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And grandfather was still alive | O |
crystal pure Jacobin radical soul | P |
his gusty grandson close behind | M |
by a fingerbreadth and as bold | Q |
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That wind that penetrated | R |
under his ribs into his spirit | S |
entered his verse and was praised | B |
in good times and in evil | T |
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That wind s everywhere The house | D |
trees country and rain | U |
in his third book of poetry | V |
in The Twelve in death the same | W |
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Wide wide wide | X |
river and field stretch away | Y |
It s haymaking time | Z |
it s communal work today | Y |
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And the mowers at the bend | A2 |
have no time to stand and gaze | D |
The mowing made Blok wild | B2 |
the young squire grasped a scythe | C2 |
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missed a hedgehog at a swipe | D2 |
then two adders were sliced | E2 |
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But his lessons weren t complete | F2 |
You idler you slacker they cried | X |
Ah childhood Ah school so dry | J |
Oh the songs of the makers of hay | Y |
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At twilight clouds from the east | G2 |
north and south are overcast | H2 |
Wind unseasonable and fierce | D |
suddenly blows in and hacks | D |
at mower s scythes at the reeds | D |
hacks at the prickly copse | D |
where the river bends runs deep | I2 |
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Ah childhood Ah school so dry | J |
Oh the songs of the makers of hay | Y |
Wide wide wide | X |
river and field stretch away | Y |
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The horizon s sinister sudden | I |
and dawn is streaked with blood | R |
like unhealed lacerations | D |
on a reaper s legs dark blood | R |
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No counting the gaps in the sky | J |
tempests and storms the omen | I |
and the air of the marsh is high | J |
with water that s rust and iron | J2 |
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Over woods gullies and roads | D |
over villages and farms | D |
the lightning in the clouds | D |
prophesies earth s harm | K2 |
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When the rim of the city sky | J |
is purple like that and rusty | V |
the State s shaken by and by | J |
a hurricane strikes our country | V |
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Blok read the writing above | L2 |
To him the heavens were set | M2 |
on foul weather presages of | L2 |
whirlwind cyclone tempest | N2 |
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Blok foresaw that storm and stress | D |
It etched with its fiery features | D |
fear and longing for that excess | D |
on his life and his verses | D |
Boris Pasternak
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