Masha Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B B C D E F AGH I J E| When I lived many years ago in Petersburg every time I chanced to hire a sledge I used to get into conversation with the driver | A |
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| I was particularly fond of talking to the night drivers poor peasants from the country round who come to the capital with their little ochre painted sledges and wretched nags in the hope of earning food for themselves and rent for their masters | B |
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| So one day I engaged such a sledge driver He was a lad of twenty tall and well made a splendid fellow with blue eyes and ruddy cheeks his fair hair curled in little ringlets under the shabby little patched cap that was pulled over his eyes And how had that little torn smock ever been drawn over those gigantic shoulders | B |
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| But the handsome beardless face of the sledge driver looked mournful and downcast | C |
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| I began to talk to him There was a sorrowful note in his voice too | D |
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| 'What is it brother ' I asked him 'why aren't you cheerful Have you some trouble ' | - |
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| The lad did not answer me for a minute 'Yes sir I have ' he said at last 'And such a trouble there could not be a worse My wife is dead ' | - |
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| 'You loved her your wife ' | - |
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| The lad did not turn to me he only bent his head a little | E |
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| 'I loved her sir It's eight months since then but I can't forget it | F |
| My heart is gnawing at me so it is And why had she to die A young thing strong In one day cholera snatched her away ' | - |
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| 'And was she good to you ' | - |
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| 'Ah sir ' the poor fellow sighed heavily 'and how happy we were together | A |
| She died without me The first I heard here they'd buried her already you know I hurried off at once to the village home I got there it was past midnight I went into my hut stood still in the middle of the room and softly I whispered Masha eh Masha Nothing but the cricket chirping | G |
| I fell a crying then sat on the hut floor and beat on the earth with my fists Greedy earth says I You have swallowed her up swallow me too Ah Masha | H |
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| 'Masha ' he added suddenly in a sinking voice And without letting go of the cord reins he wiped the tears out of his eyes with his sleeve shook it shrugged his shoulders and uttered not another word | I |
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| As I got out of the sledge I gave him a few coppers over his fare He bowed low to me grasping his cap in both hands and drove off at a walking pace over the level snow of the deserted street full of the grey fog of a January frost | J |
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| April | E |
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
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