Again, A Meeting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDAFGFHCCCIJKKK KKKKLKLHMNOPQHHHRSHK R T| Again a meeting noisy dying | A |
| half colloquium | B |
| half co lying | A |
| Obedient hands | C |
| raised to vote | D |
| is there no sob of sentiment | E |
| in your throat | D |
| when making | A |
| a charming deal | F |
| to dismember friends | G |
| on the wheel | F |
| What kind of minority | H |
| honestly stands | C |
| Only two hands | C |
| only two hands | C |
| A minority has courage | I |
| the majority reeks | J |
| They are not Bolsheviks | K |
| just bullshitviks | K |
| They are not soldiers | K |
| of revolutions | K |
| Just soldiers | K |
| of resolutions | K |
| You my friends | K |
| are silent with reason | L |
| But cowardly silence | K |
| also is treason | L |
| Oh majority majority | H |
| creators and victims of fraud | M |
| so many times you've | N |
| tortured corrupted | O |
| you have no right | P |
| to be our god | Q |
| The non ruling minority | H |
| has no authority | H |
| On so many cowards I see | H |
| an invisible life vest | R |
| But how powerless is the dishonest assent | S |
| of the majority | H |
| And how powerful is | K |
| minority's honest protest | R |
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| Translated by Albert C Todd with the author | T |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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