Girl Beatnik Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IGJJ JJJJ CKLH MCNO JOJP D| This girl comes from New York | A |
| but she does not belong | B |
| Along the neon lights this girl | C |
| runs away from herself | D |
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| To this girl the world seems odious | E |
| a moralist who's been howled down | F |
| It holds no more truths for her | G |
| Now the 'twist' alone is true | H |
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| With hair mussed and wild | I |
| in spectacles and a coarse sweater | G |
| on spiked heels she dances | J |
| the thinnest of negations | J |
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| Everything strikes her as false | J |
| everything from the Bible to the press | J |
| The Montagues exist and the Capulets | J |
| but there are no Romeos and Juliets | J |
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| The trees stoop broodingly | C |
| and rather drunkenly the moon | K |
| staggers like a beatnik sulking | L |
| along the milky avenue | H |
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| Wanders as if from bar to bar | M |
| wrapped in thought unsocial | C |
| and the city spreads underneath | N |
| in all its hard hearted beauty | O |
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| All things look hard the roofs and walls | J |
| and it's no accident that over the city | O |
| the television antennae rise | J |
| like crucifixions without Christ | P |
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| Translated by George Reavey | D |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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