The Stalin Epigram Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DE FG HI HJ HK HL| can't hear our words | A |
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| But whenever there's a snatch of talk | B |
| it turns to the Kremlin mountaineer | C |
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| the ten thick worms his fingers | D |
| his words like measures of weight | E |
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| the huge laughing cockroaches on his top lip | F |
| the glitter of his boot rims | G |
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| Ringed with a scum of chicken necked bosses | H |
| he toys with the tributes of half men | I |
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| One whistles another meows a third snivels | H |
| He pokes out his finger and he alone goes boom | J |
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| He forges decrees in a line like horseshoes | H |
| One for the groin one the forehead temple eye | K |
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| He rolls the executions on his tongue like berries | H |
| He wishes he could hug them like big friends from home | L |
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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