The Menagerie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEAF GAHAIJKL MANOPQRS TUOAAVIA WXMAAYFA ZA2B2B2YB2AA

The rejected word 'peace'A
At the beginning of an outraged eraB
A church lamp in a grottoC
And the air of mountain landsA
An ether we did not want toD
Or would not breatheE
Again with a goat voiceA
The shaggy reed pipes singF
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While sheep and oxen grazedG
On fertile pasturesA
And friendly eagles perchedH
On the shoulders of sleepy cragsA
A German reared an eagleI
A lion submitted to a BritonJ
And a Gallic comb appearedK
From a rooster's crestL
-
But now the savage has capturedM
The sacred mace of HeraclesA
The black earth has dried upN
Ungrateful as beforeO
I will get the withered wandP
And draw the fire from itQ
Let the startled beasts go awayR
With me into the deaf nightS
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The cock the lion the dark brownT
Eagle the affectionate bearU
We shall build a chamber for warO
And warm the wild beasts' hidesA
But I sing the wine of the timesA
The font of Italic speechV
And in a Great Aryan cradleI
Slavonic and Germanic flaxA
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Italy is it really worthW
Disturbing the chariots of RomeX
For the clucking of a domestic birdM
Flying across your fenceA
And you neighbor don't seek damagesA
The eagle bristles in angerY
What if for your slingF
A heavy stone is of no useA
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While the beasts are in the menagerieZ
We will settle down a whileA2
The Volga stays at high tideB2
The Rhine's current grows brighteB2
The wise man will unwillingly honorY
A foreigner as a demigodB2
With the revelry of a danceA
On the shores of great riversA

Osip Emilevich Mandelstam



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