A Sad State Of Freedom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHAIJDK LMJNO NHDPJQ RSMTUV WWXJNJY Y| You waste the attention of your eyes | A |
| the glittering labour of your hands | B |
| and knead the dough enough for dozens of loaves | C |
| of which you'll taste not a morsel | D |
| you are free to slave for others | E |
| you are free to make the rich richer | F |
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| The moment you're born | G |
| they plant around you | H |
| mills that grind lies | A |
| lies to last you a lifetime | I |
| You keep thinking in your great freedom | J |
| a finger on your temple | D |
| free to have a free conscience | K |
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| Your head bent as if half cut from the nape | L |
| your arms long hanging | M |
| your saunter about in your great freedom | J |
| you're free | N |
| with the freedom of being unemployed | O |
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| You love your country | N |
| as the nearest most precious thing to you | H |
| But one day for example | D |
| they may endorse it over to America | P |
| and you too with your great freedom | J |
| you have the freedom to become an air base | Q |
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| You may proclaim that one must live | R |
| not as a tool a number or a link | S |
| but as a human being | M |
| then at once they handcuff your wrists | T |
| You are free to be arrested imprisoned | U |
| and even hanged | V |
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| There's neither an iron wooden | W |
| nor a tulle curtain | W |
| in your life | X |
| there's no need to choose freedom | J |
| you are free | N |
| But this kind of freedom | J |
| is a sad affair under the stars | Y |
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| Translated by Taner Baybars | Y |
Nazim Hikmet
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