Ballad About False Beacons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UVWWXAYZA2Y| We've been bewitched by countless lies | A |
| by azure images of ice | B |
| by false promises of open sky and sea | C |
| and rescued by a God we don't believe | D |
| Like coppers rattling from a beggar's plate | E |
| guiding lights have fallen on our days | F |
| and burned and died | G |
| We've pressed our ship | H |
| a pilgrimage of nights toward such lights | I |
| as always elusive lured and tricked | J |
| the keel upon the rocks and ripped | K |
| the helmhold from the hand and lashed | L |
| the beggared palm to scraps | M |
| Ice tightens at the bow and breath | N |
| To dock to dropp the anchor to its rest | O |
| to drift a dream on waters quieted | P |
| and calmed We can't We're after a mirage | Q |
| The whiskered walrus brays the sea salt thaws | R |
| Again we're off | S |
| Raised on powdered milk we'll have no faith | T |
| in beacons any longer nor mistake | U |
| real for fake or waking for a dream | V |
| Beacons can't be trusted Trust instead | W |
| the will of your own hand and head | W |
| Again the captain waves his glass | X |
| sights a beacon turns and cries | A |
| 'Helmsman There's a beacon Are you blind ' | Y |
| But Helmsman with the truer eye | Z |
| thinks mutiny and grumbles | A2 |
| 'A mirage ' | Y |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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