What The Sleepless Grandam Thinks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFE GHII JKJK FLJL DMFM IAA| All through the cold night beating wings shadowy | A |
| Sweep o'er the church village poor | B |
| Only one Grandam a hundred years hoary | A |
| Findeth her slumber no more | C |
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| Harkens if cocks to the dawn be not crowing | D |
| Rolls on her oven and weeps | E |
| Sees all her past rising up to confront her | F |
| O'er her soul shameful it creeps | E |
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| 'Woe to me sinner old Woe Once I cheated | G |
| When from the church door I ran | H |
| And in the depths of the forest strayed hidden | I |
| With my beloved Ivan | I |
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| 'Woe to me Burning in hell's leaping fires | J |
| Surely will soon be my soul | K |
| I took a pair of eggs once at a neighbor's | J |
| Out from her hen yes I stole | K |
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| 'Once at the harvest at home I did linger | F |
| Swore I was deadly sick when | L |
| Taking my part in the drunken carousals | J |
| Saturday night with the men | L |
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| 'Light was I ever with soldiers Yet cursing | D |
| God's name when from me at last | M |
| My own son they took for a soldier | F |
| Even drank cream on a fast | M |
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| 'Woe to me sinner Woe to me wretched one | I |
| Woe My heart broken will be | A |
| Holy Madonna have pity have mercy | A |
| Into court go not with me ' | - |
Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov
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