Here Is What.. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACACDEFABGHIJKIILM NOHPAQRAASEIHTU V| Here is what is happening to me | A |
| my old friend doesn't come to visit | B |
| and in idle vanity | A |
| come various folk not those who should | C |
| And he | A |
| goes about somewhere not with those he should | C |
| and he understands that too | D |
| and our dischord is not cleared up | E |
| and both of us suffer from this | F |
| Here is what is happening to me | A |
| Not the right girl at all comes to visit | B |
| she puts her hands on my shoulders | G |
| and steals me from another | H |
| And that one | I |
| tell me for God's sake | J |
| on whose shoulders does she put her hands | K |
| That one | I |
| from whom I was stolen | I |
| in vengeance also will begin to steal | L |
| She won't respond immediately this way | M |
| but will live in a struggle with herself | N |
| and unaware will select | O |
| someone superfluous for her | H |
| Oh how many nervous | P |
| and unhealthy | A |
| unnecessary involvements | Q |
| unnecessary friendships | R |
| Something rabidly desperate in me | A |
| Oh somebody | A |
| come | S |
| break up | E |
| the conjunction | I |
| of people alien to one another | H |
| and the estrangement | T |
| of souls that are kindred | U |
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| Translated by Albert C Todd | V |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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