On A Sleigh, Padded With Straw Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DEBF GHIJ KLMN OPQA| On a sleigh padded with straw | A |
| Barely covered by the fateful mat | B |
| From the Vorobevy hills to the familiar chapel | C |
| We rode through enormous Moscow | D |
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| But in Uglich the children play mumbletypeg | D |
| And it smells of bread left in the oven | E |
| They carry me along the streets without my hat | B |
| In the oratory three candles burn | F |
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| Not three burning candles three meetings | G |
| One consecrated by God Himself | H |
| A fourth would never be but Rome is far | I |
| And He was never fond of Rome | J |
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| The sled dashed through black ruts | K |
| People were returning from the promenade | L |
| Wretched peasants with their angry wives | M |
| Cracked seeds by the gate | N |
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| The damp distance blackened with flocks of birds | O |
| The bound hands swelled They carry the Carevich | P |
| The body grows terribly numb | Q |
| They set fire to the reddened straw | A |
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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