Don't Disappear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA ACDE FGHI JGGK LMNO PQRG F| Don't disappear By disappearing from me | A |
| you will disappear from yourself | B |
| betraying your own self forever | C |
| and that will be the basest dishonesty | A |
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| Don't disappear To disappear is so easy | A |
| It's impossible to resurrect one another | C |
| Death drags down too deep | D |
| Death even for a moment is too long | E |
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| Don't disappear Forget the third shadow | F |
| In love there are only two There are no thirds | G |
| We both will be pure on Judgment Day | H |
| when the trumpets call us to account | I |
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| Don't disappear We have redeemed sin | J |
| We both are free of the law we are sinless | G |
| We are worthy together of the forgiveness of those | G |
| whom we have unintentionally wounded | K |
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| Don't disappear One can disappear in an instant | L |
| but how could we meet later in the centuries ahead | M |
| Is your double possible in the world | N |
| and my double Only barely in our children | O |
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| Don't disappear Give me your palm | P |
| I am written on it this I believe | Q |
| What makes one's last love terrible | R |
| is that it is not love but fear of loss | G |
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| Translated by Antonina W Bouis Albert C Todd and Yevgeny Yevtushenko | F |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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