Assignation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIBJKLIMNOPQI RSTUVWXQQXIYZA2B2BC2 ID2SQXE2F2G2H2I2J2K2 L2M2N2O2B2O2P2Q2AR2G XN2QQNE2S2T2 U2| No No Believe me | A |
| I've come to the wrong place | B |
| I've made a god awful mistake Even the glass | C |
| in my hand's an accident | D |
| and so's the gauze glance | E |
| of the woman who runs the joint | F |
| 'Let's dance huh | G |
| You're pale | H |
| Didn't get enough sleep ' | I |
| And I feel like there's no place | B |
| to hide but say anyway in a rush | J |
| 'I'll go get dressed | K |
| No no it's just | L |
| that I ended up out of bounds ' | I |
| And later trailing me as I leave | M |
| 'This is where booze gets you | N |
| What do you mean 'not here' Right here Right here every time | O |
| You bug everybody and you're so satisfied | P |
| with yourself Zhenichka | Q |
| you've got a problem ' | I |
| I shove the frost of my hands | R |
| down my pockets and the streets around are snow | S |
| deep snow I dive into a cab Buddy kick this thing Behind | T |
| the Falcon | U |
| there's a room They're supposed to be waiting for me there | V |
| She opens the door | W |
| but what the hell's wrong with her | X |
| Why the crazy look | Q |
| 'It's almost five o'clock | Q |
| You sure you couldn't have come a little later | X |
| Well forget it Come on in Where else could you go now ' | I |
| Shall I explode | Y |
| with a laugh | Z |
| or maybe with tears | A2 |
| I tell you I was scribbling doggerel | B2 |
| but I got lost someplace | B |
| I hide from the eyes Wavering I move backwards | C2 |
| 'No no Believe me I've come to the wrong place ' | I |
| Once again the night | D2 |
| once again snow | S |
| and somebody's insolent song | Q |
| and somebody's clean pure laughter | X |
| I could do with a cigarette | E2 |
| In the blizzard Pushkin's demons flash past | F2 |
| and their contemptuous buck toothed grin | G2 |
| scares me to death | H2 |
| And the kiosks | I2 |
| and the drugstores | J2 |
| and the social security offices | K2 |
| scare me just as much | L2 |
| No no Believe me I've ended up | M2 |
| in the wrong place again | N2 |
| It's horrible to live | O2 |
| and even more horrible | B2 |
| not to live | O2 |
| Ach this being homeless | P2 |
| like the Wandering Jew Lord Now I've gotten myself | Q2 |
| into the wrong century | A |
| wrong epoch | R2 |
| geologic era | G |
| wrong number | X |
| The wrong place again | N2 |
| I'm wrong | Q |
| I've got it wrong | Q |
| I go slouching my shoulders as I'd do | N |
| if I'd lost some bet | E2 |
| and ah I know it everybody knows it | S2 |
| I can't pay off | T2 |
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| Translated by James Dickey with Anthony Kahn | U2 |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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