The Old Barrel Organ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEEE FGEG HIJI KLEL MNMG| We almost lost our minds through that mad sky | A |
| It blinds us with its fire or its snow | B |
| And baring teeth like any beast of wild | C |
| Old winter hides in April very slow | B |
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| No sooner has it fallen into sleep | D |
| That has again its helmet over brows | E |
| And those streams gone into snow deeps | E |
| Cease their song and freeze in deadly silence | E |
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| But all this is forgotten in the past | F |
| The garden hums and whitens vibrant stone | G |
| And rooms look with opened windows eyes | E |
| At dark green grass over the road sown | G |
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| But only one the barrel organ old | H |
| Shivers with cold in May of sunset s languor | I |
| Can t ever grind all injuries recalled | J |
| As it rotates the heedful shaft with anger | I |
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| This rusty barrel cannot understand | K |
| That all its work is void of any goal | L |
| That any pain of old age extends | E |
| On every pin and every turn in whole | L |
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| But even if it once were to discern | M |
| Its own fate and fate of the street organ | N |
| It would not ever cease to sing and turn | M |
| Cause every song is one of pain and moan | G |
Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky
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