Batuschka Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCD EEFFD GGHHD IIJKD LLMMD| Author's Note The title means little father or dear little father a term of endearment applied to the Tsar in Russian folk song T B A | A |
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| From yonder gilded minaret | B |
| Beside the steel blue Neva set | B |
| I faintly catch from time to time | C |
| The sweet aerial midnight chime | C |
| God save the Tsar | D |
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| Above the ravelins and the moats | E |
| Of the white citadel it floats | E |
| And men in dungeons far beneath | F |
| Listen and pray and gnash their teeth | F |
| God save the Tsar | D |
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| The soft reiterations sweep | G |
| Across the horrer of their sleep | G |
| As if some d mon in his glee | H |
| Were mocking at their misery | H |
| God save the Tsar | D |
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| In his Red Palace over there | I |
| Wakeful he needs must hear the prayer | I |
| How can it drown the broken cries | J |
| Wrung from his children's agonies | K |
| God save the Tsar | D |
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| Father they called him from of old | L |
| Batuschka How his heart is cold | L |
| Wait till a million scourg d men | M |
| Rise in their awful might and then | M |
| God save the Tsar | D |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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