No, I'm Not Byron; I Am, Yet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABCBCDBEF G H IJKL MNOP GQBRNo I'm not Byron I am yet | A |
Another choice for the sacred dole | B |
Like him a persecuted soul | B |
But only of the Russian set | A |
I early start and end the whole | B |
And will not win the future days | C |
Like in an ocean in my soul | B |
A cargo of lost hopes stays | C |
Who oh my ocean severe | D |
Could read all secrets in your scroll | B |
Who'll tell the people my idea | E |
I will or God or none at all | F |
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Another translation by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi | G |
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I AM NOT BYRON | H |
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I am not Byron yet I am | I |
One fore elected yet one more | J |
Unknown world hunted wanderer | K |
A Russian in my mood and mind | L |
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Scant from my seed the corn was ripe | M |
My mouth spoke young was early hushed | N |
In depths of my own soul the wreck | O |
Of hope lies as in deep sea sunk | P |
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Who shall the counsels of the sea | G |
Its awe sublime unloose Who shall | Q |
Read clear my spirit and my soul | B |
Unless it be a Poet no man | R |
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
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