Letter To My Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHHIJKLCMJ NOLNPQRSTUJTTEIHVWXY ZBCHCBA2B2TCC2D2QYT X| A | |
| Bursa Prison | B |
| My one and only | C |
| Your last letter says | D |
| My head is throbbing | E |
| my heart is stunned | F |
| You say | G |
| If they hang you | H |
| if I lose you | H |
| I'll die | I |
| You'll live my dear | J |
| my memory will vanish like black smoke in the wind | K |
| Of course you'll live red haired lady of my heart | L |
| in the twentieth century | C |
| grief lasts | M |
| at most a year | J |
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| Death | N |
| a body swinging from a rope | O |
| My heart | L |
| can't accept such a death | N |
| But | P |
| you can bet | Q |
| if some poor gypsy's hairy black | R |
| spidery hand | S |
| slips a noose | T |
| around my neck | U |
| they'll look in vain for fear | J |
| in Nazim's | T |
| blue eyes | T |
| In the twilight of my last morning | E |
| I | I |
| will see my friends and you | H |
| and I'll go | V |
| to my grave | W |
| regretting nothing but an unfinished song | X |
| My wife | Y |
| Good hearted | Z |
| golden | B |
| eyes sweeter than honey my bee | C |
| Why did I write you | H |
| they want to hang me | C |
| The trial has hardly begun | B |
| and they don't just pluck a man's head | A2 |
| like a turnip | B2 |
| Look forget all this | T |
| If you have any money | C |
| buy me some flannel underwear | C2 |
| my sciatica is acting up again | D2 |
| And don't forget | Q |
| a prisoner's wife | Y |
| must always think good thoughts | T |
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| Trans by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk | X |
Nazim Hikmet
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