Meditation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDCECEFGFG HGHGAAAAAIAJAGAGKGKG AEAELMLM| With sadness I survey our present generation | A |
| Their future seems so empty dark and cold | B |
| Weighed down beneath a load of knowing hesitation | A |
| In idleness stagnating growing old | B |
| We have received when barely finished weaning | C |
| The errors of our sires their tardiness of mind | D |
| And life oppresses us a flat road without meaning | C |
| An alien feast where we have dined | D |
| T'ward good and evil shamefully uncaring | C |
| We wilt without a fight when starting on life's race | E |
| When danger threatens us ignoble want of daring | C |
| Before those set on high despicable and base | E |
| A wizened fruit grown ripe before its hour | F |
| No pleasure to the eye and no delight to taste | G |
| An orphan stranger there he hangs beside the flower | F |
| The time of its full bloom is his to fall and waste | G |
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| For we have dried our brains with fruitless speculations | H |
| Withholding enviously from friends and those ahout | G |
| The ringing voice of lofty aspirations | H |
| And noble passions undermined by doubt | G |
| Our lips have barely brushed the cup of delectation | A |
| But youthful strength we did not thus retain | A |
| From every joy we found in fear of saturation | A |
| We took the best and never came again | A |
| The dreams of poesy pure art and its creation | A |
| With its sweet ecstasy our senses never move | I |
| We greedily retain the remnants of sensation | A |
| Dug deep and miserly a useless treasure trove | J |
| And we both love and hate by chance without conviction | A |
| We make no sacrifice for malice or for good | G |
| There reigns within our souls a kind of chill constriction | A |
| Whene'er the flame ignites the blood | G |
| The pastimes of our sires we think a boring story | K |
| Their guileless boyish dissipations unrefined | G |
| We hurry to our graves unhappy without glory | K |
| With one last sneering glance behind | G |
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| A gloomy throng are we condemned and soon forgotten | A |
| We pass across the world in silence without trace | E |
| No thoughts that might bear fruit for ages unbegotten | A |
| No work of genius to inspire the race | E |
| Our ashes will receive a harsh and just portrayal | L |
| Posterity will sneer with skilled and scornful verse | M |
| A curse of bitterness from sons at their betrayal | L |
| By their own father's spendthrift purse | M |
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
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