The Lost Tram Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL CMFN OPQR STB UVNW VXUY ZA2KL B2C2LD2 VE2F2G2 YH2I2J2 K2L2QM2 FBN2O2 P2Q2R2S2| I walked an unfamiliar street | A |
| And suddenly heard a raven's cry | B |
| And the sound of a lute and distant thunder | C |
| In front of me a tram was flying | D |
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| How I jumped onto its foot board | E |
| Was a mystery to me | F |
| Even in daylight it left behind | G |
| A fiery trail in the air | H |
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| It rushed like a dark winged storm | I |
| And was lost in the abyss of time | J |
| Tram driver stop | K |
| Stop the tram now | L |
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| Too late We had already turned the corner | C |
| We tore through a forest of palms | M |
| Over the Neva the Nile the Seine | F |
| We thundered across three bridges | N |
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| And slipping by the window frame | O |
| A poor old man threw us an inquisitive glance | P |
| The very same old man of course | Q |
| Who had died in Beirut a year ago | R |
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| Where am I So languid and troubled | S |
| The beat of my heart responds | T |
| 'Do you see the station where you can buy | B |
| A ticket to the India of the soul ' | - |
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| A sign Blood filled letters | U |
| Announce 'Zelennaya ' I know that here | V |
| Instead of cabbages and rutabagas | N |
| The heads of the dead are for sale | W |
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| In a red shirt with a face like an udder | V |
| The executioner cuts my head off too | X |
| It lies together with the others | U |
| Here in a slippery box at the very bottom | Y |
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| And in a side street a board fence | Z |
| A house three windows wide a gray lawn | A2 |
| Tram driver stop | K |
| Stop the tram now | L |
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| Mashenka you lived here and sang | B2 |
| You wove me your betrothed a carpet | C2 |
| Where are your voice and body now | L |
| Is it possible that you are dead | D2 |
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| How you groaned in your front chamber | V |
| While I in a powdered wig | E2 |
| Went to introduce myself to the Empress | F2 |
| Never to see you again | G2 |
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| Now I understand our freedom | Y |
| Is only an indirect light from those times | H2 |
| People and shadows stand at the entrance | I2 |
| To a zoological park of planets | J2 |
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| And a sudden familiar sweet wind blows | K2 |
| A horseman's hand in an iron glove | L2 |
| And two hooves of his horse | Q |
| Fly at me over the bridge | M2 |
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| That faithful stronghold of Orthodoxy | F |
| Isaac's is etched upon the sky | B |
| There I will hold a service for Mashenka's health | N2 |
| And a requiem mass for myself | O2 |
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| And my heart goes on forever in gloom | P2 |
| It is hard to breathe and painful to live | Q2 |
| Mashenka I never would have dreamed | R2 |
| That such love and longing were possible | S2 |
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
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