Last Will And Testament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFG HIJK LMNO LPIQ RSTU IHCHVW X W| Comrades if I don't live to see the day | A |
| I mean if I die before freedom comes | B |
| take me away | A |
| and bury me in a village cemetery in Anatolia | C |
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| The worker Osman whom Hassan Bey ordered shot | D |
| can lie on one side of me and on the other side | E |
| the martyr Aysha who gave birth in the rye | F |
| and died inside of forty days | G |
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| Tractors and songs can pass below the cemetery | H |
| in the dawn light new people the smell of burnt gasoline | I |
| fields held in common water in canals | J |
| no drought or fear of the police | K |
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| Of course we won't hear those songs | L |
| the dead lie stretched out underground | M |
| and rot like black branches | N |
| deaf dumb and blind under the earth | O |
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| But I sang those songs | L |
| before they were written | P |
| I smelled the burnt gasoline | I |
| before the blueprints for the tractors were drawn | Q |
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| As for my neighbors | R |
| the worker Osman and the martyr Aysha | S |
| they felt the great longing while alive | T |
| maybe without even knowing it | U |
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| Comrades if I die before that day I mean | I |
| and it's looking more and more likely | H |
| bury me in a village cemetery in Anatolia | C |
| and if there's one handy | H |
| a plane tree could stand at my head | V |
| I wouldn't need a stone or anything | W |
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| Moscow Barviha Hospital | X |
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| Trans by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk | W |
Nazim Hikmet
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