Boots Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIFJKALMNONPFF QCRPSPTSUALPPPP RPOV WAFPPXYLLRZA2PDOB2AA C2TRA2PAPPPA D2To K Vanshenkin | A |
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Our railway car was like a gypsy camp | B |
Raucous shouting everywhere | C |
The left platform stuffed with hay | D |
sailors sleeping like gods | E |
'Marusya ' someone bellowed softly | F |
A red haired cat gulped cabbage soup | G |
A somber fellow was being taught | H |
never to cheat at cards | I |
Hamming it up wasn't new to me | F |
and I became famous in those circles | J |
thanks to my tall American boots | K |
One | A |
after another | L |
took me by the elbow | M |
asking me to sell them | N |
but I | O |
only let them pat them | N |
and tap them on the soles | P |
But below me | F |
on the way to some Yetkul | F |
a boy my age | Q |
with a thick head of hair | C |
was traveling | R |
barefoot in enormous riding breeches | P |
And so what | S |
if I have boots | P |
and he is barefoot | T |
well so what | S |
but for some reason I tried | U |
to look at him less often | A |
I don't remember | L |
in just what place | P |
our train stopped for five minutes | P |
The whole car was excited by the news | P |
'Brothers | P |
they are giving out something ' | - |
Half asleep dimly cursing everything | R |
I wanted to put on my boots | P |
but someone screamed running by | O |
'You're going to be late | V |
Get a move on ' | - |
I ran off | W |
but in the frightening din | A |
by the station hall | F |
in the distance | P |
and with my boots | P |
I caught sight of that boy | X |
Took off in a storm after the thief | Y |
I was righteous in mighty anger | L |
I jumped from one car buffer to another | L |
tearing my pants on something | R |
Chased after him with all my strength | Z |
I pinned him to a train car | A2 |
where giving back my boots in silence | P |
he suddenly burst out crying and ran away | D |
And I | O |
in a kind of shock | B2 |
stared and stared through the slanting rain | A |
as he ran | A |
over the raw ground | C2 |
of autumn crying barefoot | T |
Then the imposing portfolio carrying | R |
chief old resident of the car | A2 |
offered me half a glass | P |
of Novosibirsk port wine | A |
Girls patched my pants | P |
assuring me that it was not serious | P |
and out the window power lines | P |
flew up and then dove down | A |
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Translated by Albert C Todd | D2 |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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