O This Air, Intoxicated With Sedition Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC CCDC CECC FCGH AIJK| O this air intoxicated with sedition | A |
| On the black square of the Kremlin | A |
| The agitators rock the teetering world | B |
| It smells of restless poplars | C |
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| The waxen facades of the cathedrals | C |
| The thick forest of bells | C |
| As if a tongueless bandit | D |
| Had vanished in the stony rafters | C |
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| But in the sealed cathedrals | C |
| Where it is cool and dark | E |
| Like in delicate clay amphoras | C |
| The Russian wine sparkles | C |
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| The whole Assumption wonderfully rotund | F |
| The marvel of the arches of Paradise | C |
| And the Annunciation in green | G |
| Suddenly seems to start to crow | H |
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| The Archangel and Resurrection | A |
| Show through like a palm | I |
| Everywhere the secret burning | J |
| In the wine jugs a hidden flame | K |
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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