A Meeting In Copenhagen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADAAAEAAFGHIAAAJK ALAMNOAPKQARLSTAAUAV Q| We are sitting at an airport | A |
| in Copenhagen drinking a lot of coffee | B |
| It was most elegant there and comfortable | C |
| and refined to the point of lassitude | A |
| Then suddenly he appeared that old man | D |
| in a plain green parka with a hood | A |
| his face deep tanned by salt and wind | A |
| loomed up rather than appeared | A |
| He walked furrowing through a crowd of tourists | E |
| as if he'd just been sailing a boat | A |
| and like the sea foam his beard | A |
| whitening it fringed his face | F |
| With grim victorious determination | G |
| he walked generating a big wave | H |
| that swept through the modernized antique | I |
| through every sort of antiqued modernity | A |
| And pulling open the coarse collar of his shirt | A |
| he rejecting a vermouth and a pernod | A |
| ordered a glass of Russian vodka at the bar | J |
| and pushed back the tonic with his hand 'No ' | K |
| With rough hewn hands all scarred and dented | A |
| in boots that made a mighty clatter | L |
| in trousers indescribably stained and greasy | A |
| he looked more spruce | M |
| than anything nearby | N |
| The earth seemed to bend beneath him | O |
| so heavily did he tread upon it | A |
| And one of us said to me with a smile | P |
| 'Just look The very spit of Hemingway ' | K |
| Expressed in each brief gesture he strode off | Q |
| with a fisherman's ponderous gait | A |
| all out of granite crudely hewn | R |
| strode as men stride through gunfire | L |
| through the ages | S |
| He strode as if stooping in a trench | T |
| strode shoving chairs and men aside | A |
| He resembled | A |
| Hemingway so much | U |
| Later I learned | A |
| it was indeed Hemingway | V |
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| Translated by George Reavey | Q |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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