Final Faith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDED FGHB BIJK LFBM NOPQ RPST MUPP MMBV WSSX YBZA2| Is it possible that we are so twisted | A |
| there is no salvation for any of us | B |
| and that ideas have become wingless | B |
| in an age of winged rockets | B |
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| Is it possible that a crippled birch | C |
| bending over to the last river | D |
| will see the last man | E |
| in its boiling water | D |
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| Is it possible there'll be no Big Ben | F |
| Saint Basil's or Notre Dame | G |
| and that neutron foam will gush | H |
| over our final steps | B |
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| But that planet cherry trees | B |
| birds and children will perish | I |
| I don't believe This disbelief | J |
| is my final faith | K |
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| Skull after skull will not | L |
| be piled up in towers again | F |
| The final Nuremberg approaches us | B |
| before not after the war | M |
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| And the last soldier on earth | N |
| will throw his shoulder strap in a stream | O |
| and watch how peacefully | P |
| dragonflies sit on it | Q |
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| All rascality will end | R |
| All people will understand we are a family | P |
| The last government | S |
| will abolish itself | T |
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| The last exploiter | M |
| opening his toothless mouth | U |
| will gobble the last money | P |
| furtively like a delicacy | P |
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| The last cowardly editor | M |
| will be doomed forever | M |
| to read from the stage in sequence | B |
| everything that he destroyed | V |
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| So that the last bureaucrat | W |
| can rest and be silent | S |
| his gullet will be stuffed in payment | S |
| with the last rubber stamp | X |
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| And the earth will turn | Y |
| without fear of the last years | B |
| there never will be born | Z |
| the last great poet | A2 |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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